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Country wronged in 51 women
entered
Sabarimala,
Rafale deal, says Cong. Kerala tells SC
Modi govt. ensured windfall for Dassault: Chidambaram Krishnadas Rajagopal
Kolkata turns fulcrum of NEW DELHI
anti-BJP unity SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT The Kerala government in
KOLKATA NEW DELHI formed the Supreme
Soon after landing here,
Opposition parties on Friday Court on Friday that 51 “fe
Janata Dal(S) leader H.D.
reiterated their demand for male devotees” of men
Deve Gowda and Samajwadi
Party chief Akhilesh Yadav
a Joint Parliamentary Com strual age dodged protes
commended Trinamool mittee ( JPC) to probe the Ra ters to enter the
Congress chief and West fale deal and accused the Na Sabarimala shrine, be
Bengal Chief Minister rendra Modi government of sides Bindu and Kanaka
Mamata Banerjee for her “compromising on national durga, during this pilgrim
eff ort to bring the antiBJP security” by reducing the age season.
parties together on one number of Rafale fi ghter jets A twopage note sub
platform for a mega rally in ordered from 126 to 36. mitted by the Director
the city’s Brigade Parade Addressing a press confe General of Police (DGP) to
Ground on Saturday. rence on The Hindu investi a threejudge Bench, led
NEWS A PAGE 8 gation, former Finance Mi by Chief Justice of India
DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD nister P. Chidambaram said Ranjan Gogoi, said a total
the government had of 7,564 women aged bet
Valley sees three “wronged” the country and ween 1050 had registered
grenade explosions ensured a windfall for Das online for darshan.
SRINAGAR sault Aviation, which makes The DGP said that digi
Suspected militants triggered the Rafale fi ghters. tally scanned records
REPORTS ON PAGE 13
three grenade explosions in show 51 women in the 10
Srinagar, Shopian and
Pulwama districts on Friday
‘No explanation’
Defence Ministry says all 50 category “visited the
HC stays JNU
No alliance with Congress for Lok Sabha elections: AAP decision on
Party to contest all seats in Delhi, Haryana, Punjab; Sheila rules out possibility of talks; BJP says all anti-Modi alliances would fail attendance
Jatin Anand nouncement at a press con there going to be any talks of tion made by “likeminded made by Punjab CM Amarin convener Arvind Kejriwal. Staff Reporter
Jaideep Deo Bhanj ference, said that the idea of an alliance with the AAP in leaders”. “Farooq Abdullah, der Singh and Delhi Con Leader of the Opposition New Delhi
New Delhi
an alliance between the AAP Delhi,” she told The Hindu. M.K. Stalin, Chandrababu gress president Sheila Diksh in Delhi Assembly Vijender Noting that action against
The Aam Aadmi Party on Fri and the Congress to “counter The BJP, on its part, ar Naidu, Mamata Banerjee it, the AAP has decided to Gupta said the “failed al unauthorised absence be
day ruled out any alliance the Narendra ModiAmit gued that this “failed associa among others stressed that contest the Lok Sabha polls liance had exposed the taken as per rules govern
with the Congress for the up Shah duo” was a “suggestion tion” between the two par despite disagreements with in Delhi, Punjab and Harya AAP”. “This failed alliance ing the service of the teach
coming Lok Sabha polls and made by other parties”. ties was indicative of the fate the Congress, we should na on its own,” Mr. Rai said. has exposed the fact that the ing staff , the Delhi High
announced that it will fi eld Delhi Congress chief Shei of “all antiModi alliances fi ght the elections together The AAP, he added, will AAP was, is and will always Court on Friday stayed de
its candidates in all parlia la Dikshit categorically de across the country”. in the interest of the coun announce its candidates remain just a Delhi party till cisions of JNU’s academic
mentary constituencies in nied even the possibility of try,” he said. “However, due “soon” and will start its cam it survives. All these alliances and executive councils to
Delhi, Haryana and Punjab. talks of an alliance with the ‘Other leaders’ advice’ to the arrogance which the paign from a rally in Barnala against the Modi government make attendance mandato
AAP’s Delhi convener Go AAP. “No, there have not Mr. Rai said the AAPCon Congress is still steeped in in Punjab on January 20, in will see a similar fate in the ry for the faculty.
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pal Rai, while making the an been any talks and nor are gress alliance was a sugges and the statements being the presence of its national days to come,” he said. DETAILS A DELHI METRO PAGE 1
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Once again a palace fi t for the Nizams
Painstaking conservation has restored the grandeur of Hyderabad’s Chowmahalla Palace
accused in Gurugram
Serish Nanisetti Once spread over 60 front pillars, which was She had refused to withdraw complaint, alleges eyewitness
Hyderabad acres near the city’s Mecca done for the fi rst time. It
While Hyderabad’s heritage Masjid, the palace complex took us six months of trial Special Correspondent When they returned to the police. Gurugram Pol
structures and sites are with its eight buildings is and error and close to 500 GURUGRAM around 5:30 a.m., Sandeep ice spokesperson Subhash
being seen as prime real restricted to just about 12 samples to get it right,” A 23yearold woman work asked the woman’s mother Boken said the woman was
estate up for grabs, the acres now. A big moment recalled Ms. Naik. The result ing at a Hauz Khas bar was and sister, who were visiting shot about fi ve times. No ar
restoration of the was the coronation of is a stunning transformation shot dead in Gurugram on her, to persuade her to with rests have been made so far.
Chowmahalla Palace to its Mukarram Jah Nizam VII in in which pillars appear to Friday allegedly by the man draw the rape case against The victim belonged to
ageold grandeur, putting it 1967 after the demise of his have a glaze of newness. she had accused of rape. him. The victim refused fol Karnal while her friend is
on top of the city’s must see grandfather Nizam VI Mir A teenage friend of the lowing which the four left from Bhiwani.
bucket list, is a silver lining. Osman Ali Khan. Bright fi nish victim who was a witness to the room and drove towards The police said the wo
“This has been the most After 1976, however, the Inside, there is a subtle the murder said the ac Faridabad. When they man had come in contact
extensive eff ort to restore palace complex was left change in the colour cused, Sandeep, shot the reached Khushboo Chowk with Sandeep, a bouncer,
the Palace to the state it was untended and uncared for schemes and a more woman after she refused to around 6.30 a.m., Sandeep when she came to Gurugram
when it was built. We have till Princess Esra, former resplendent fi nish to the withdraw the rape case stopped the car and pulled four years ago. The two fell
restored the original colour wife of Mukarram Jah, Lit up in the night The restored Chowmahalla Palace has a walls and ceiling with against him. the woman out. He threa for each other and moved in
after trying out 500 samples stepped in to begin glossy sheen. SERISH NANISETTI
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delicate daubs of colour on According to the FIR, San tened to shoot her if she did together. After two years of
and colours,” said Anuradha restoration eff orts in 2000. the intricate stucco work deep called the woman in not withdraw the case. livein relationship, the wo
Naik, conservation “For nearly seven years, a other buildings are also product and matched it to that dominates the building. the early hours of Friday and When she refused again, man learnt that Sandeep
architect, working on the team lead by Rahul being restored in stages,” the original colour. We “This is an ongoing asked her to meet him. The Sandeep whipped out a re was married and lodged a
project. The structure dates Mehrotra, Marthand Singh said Kishen Rao, director of scraped off layer after layer process. The upper fl oor of woman, along with the volver and allegedly opened rape case against him in No
back to late 18th century and Najib Jung worked to Chowmahalla Palace, who and found the original the darbar hall has been friend, reached her room in fi re at her. The woman's vember 2017. Sandeep was
when construction began in carefully catalogue, ideate has been involved in the colour. We used a 20% carefully restored taking DLF PhaseIII where San friend fl ed the spot and in arrested and let off on bail in
1750. It was completed in and curate a unique project right from its darker shade as lime fades care of the steel spans and deep arrived with his friend formed the victim’s mother June last year. A month later,
the mid 19th century during experience that gives a hint inception. as it sets in. The real beams,” said Princess Esra and the four went out for about the incident. The the two started living togeth
the reign of Asaj Jah V. of the life of royalty. The “We used a limefriendly challenge was marbling the with a hint of pride. food around 2 a.m. mother reported the matter er again, the police said.
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The Youth Congress unit of
western Assam’s Barpeta
district on Friday fi led an
FIR against Finance and
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Health Minister Himanta
Biswa Sarma for “unconsti
tutional, false, communal
and illegal” statements
about Muslims in the State.
Signed by 21 members of
the district Youth Congress,
including its president An
warul Islam Khan, the FIR
said Dr. Sarma had in a tele
Himanta Biswa Sarma
vision talk show on January
16 alluded to “heavy pre
sence of Bangladeshi Mus vite monastery, from the
lims in the Baghbar Assemb area to Sorbhog.
ly constituency. “The monastery was
“How can a dignifi ed Mi shifted in October 2005 due
nister say 90,000 Bangla to erosion by the Brahmapu
deshi Muslims are staying in tra. The Muslims had op
Baghbar when 95% of the posed the shifting but later
people there have been in helped in the shifting pro
cluded in the National Regis cess, and this was acknow
ter of Citizens?” Mr. Khan ledged in a book by the son
asked. of an abbot of the monas
It also contested Dr. Sar tery,” Mr. Khan said.
ma’s allegation that aggres The FIR was lodged at the
sive behaviour of local Mus Mandia police outpost in the
lims led to the shifting of the district with a plea for ac
Moinbari Satra, a Vaishna tion against the Minister.
Meghalaya modifi es order,
allows coal transportation
‘Coal trucks from Bhutan can enter Bangladesh’
SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT originated outside Megha
GUWAHATI laya and being transported
The Meghalaya govern through the State of Megha
ment on Friday issued a laya” would be permitted
modifi ed order allowing and regulated for transpor
transportation of coal that tation in “partial modifi ca
“originated outside the tion” of an earlier order, T.
State”. Dkhar, Commissioner and
A misinterpretation of Secretary of the State’s De
the Supreme Court’s Janu partment of Mining and Ge
ary 15 order by customs of ology, said.
fi cials had resulted in 28 “We have been told that
coal trucks from Bhutan the coal trucks from Bhu
being prevented from deli tan would be allowed to
vering the consignment in move into Bangladesh Sa
Bangladesh. The apex turday morning for deliv
court had banned the tran ery of the consignments.
sportation of extracted coal This (disallowing move
from Meghalaya’s illegal ment of the trucks) should
rathole mines till February not have happened since
19. the Supreme Court order
Bhutan exports coal to does not apply to third
Bangladesh via India as per country exports,” said Dol
the South Asian Preferen ly Khonglah, secretary of
tial Trade Arrangement. the Meghalaya Internation
The trucks had travelled al Exporters’ Chamber of
about 265 km from Darran Commerce.
ga on the AssamBhutan On Friday, fi ve more coal
border to the integrated trucks from Bhutan
checkpost at Dawki on the reached Dawki.
MeghalayaBangladesh Ms. Khonglah said 12
border. more are expected to arrive
“The coal which has on Saturday.
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IN BRIEF
U.P. govt. nod Rajasthan govt. to push women’s quota Panel to probe
Cong. factions’
For 33% seats for women in Assembly; may be replicated in Cong.-ruled States clash in H.P.
for reservation Press trust of india
Jaipur
Rajasthan Chief Minister Ash
Gandhi had been fi ghting for
reservation for women in
Parliament and legislative As
Bainsla gives ultimatum Press trust of india
Shimla
Punjab CM announces
10% poor quota in general category ok Gehlot said on Friday that semblies. After a long strug Press trust of india A day after supporters of
the State Cabinet has in prin gle, the Bill was passed in Jaipur former Chief Minister Virb
grant for Malwa region
CHANDIGARH
Press trust of india ciple decided to pass a reso Lok Sabha but it was pending Gujjar leader Kirori Singh hadra Singh and former Hi
Punjab Chief Minister
LUCKNOW lution seeking 33% reserva in Rajya Sabha. Bainsla urged the Rajasthan machal Congress chief
Amarinder Singh on Friday The Uttar Pradesh govern tion for women in legislative government on Friday to re Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu
announced a development ment on Friday approved Assembly. ‘Cong. committed’ solve the issue of reserva clashed here, the party on
grant of ₹ 208.40 crore for 10% reservation for eco “In principle, it was decid Deputy Chief Minister Sachin tion for the community in Friday constituted a two
funding infrastructure works nomically backward among ed yesterday to pass a resolu Pilot said the Bill granting re government jobs and educa member committee to
in in the Malwa region. upper castes in jobs and tion in legislative Assembly servation to women was in tional institutes within 20 probe the incident.
The Chief Minister asked the educational institutions. for 33% reservation for wo troduced in Parliament and days failing which he threa Talking to media per
MLAs to prioritise the The nod was given at a men. Congress president Congress has been commit tened to stage protest. Gujjar leader Kirori Singh sons at the Congress Bha
development works within meeting here of the State wants that resolution is ted to the matter. “State government Bainsla. * wan here, Himachal Pra
their constituencies. PTI Cabinet presided over by passed in fi ve Congressruled He said it is the party’s in should clarify its stand on desh Congress Committee
Chief Minister Yogi Aditya CM Yogi Adityanath. *
States,” Mr. Gehlot told re tention to pass a resolution in the reservation issue in 20 Mr. Bainsla also sought president Kuldeep Singh
Train runs over 25 cows nath, senior Cabinet Minis porters outside the State Assemblies where Con days failing which I will support from government Rathore said the panel
in U.P.’s Hamirpur ter and U.P. government nister Yogi Adityanath ap Assembly. gress has formed stage protest,” Mr. Bainsla, employees belonging to the would submit its report
BANDA
spokesperson Shrikant proved the notifi cation government. who has spearheaded Guj most backward classes. within 15 days.
A train ran over 25 cows near
Sharma told mediapersons. granting 10% reservation to Resolution timing Though the matter is jar agitations in the State, Gujjars in Rajasthan al “A impartial, highpow
Ragaol railway station in
Hamirpur district on Friday,
the poor among the upper However, he did not say pending at the Centre, it was told reporters. ready have 1 per cent reser er panel comprising advo
officials said. “The cows were Third State to do so castes which has come into whether the resolution will discussed on Thursday in the He said he will hold a vation in the ‘most back cates Nareshwar Singh
found dead on the tracks,” SP, Uttar Pradesh became the eff ect on January 14,” Mr. be passed in this Assembly Cabinet to form a consensus ‘panchayat’ in Khandar, ward’ category but are Chandel and Rupinder
rural, Hamirpur Hemraj third State after Gujarat and Sharma said. session. on it as it was one of the pro Nainwa, Ajmer and Dausa demanding 5per cent quota Singh Thakur has been
Meena said. Police have been Jharkhand to approve the le “The U.P. government Mr. Gehlot said former mises in the Congress elec on January 27, February 1, 5 under the legal limit of 50 constituted to look into the
deployed in the area after gislation which has to be rat will implement the quota Congress president Sonia tion manifesto, he added. and 13, respectively. per cent reservation. the clash,” he said.
some persons alleged the ifi ed by at least half the State for the upper castes fully
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Rajesh Kalia of the BJP was
on Friday elected as the
new Mayor of Chandigarh
Municipal Corporation af
ter he defeated the party’s
rebel candidate Satish
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EDUCATIONAL
TENDERS
#331007
PERSONAL
CHANGE OF NAME
I, NARENDRI Devi alias Neeru Singh
W/o Shri Ghanshyam Singh R/o 22−B,
Block B, Gangotri Enclave, New Del-
hi−110019 do hereby solemnly af-
firm and declare that my names
i.e. Narendri Devi and Neeru Singh
are the same and one person.
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IN BRIEF
IndiGo A320neo engines Gaganyaan top priority: ISRO
failed 69 times, says DGCA India is no less than China in its space programme: Sivan
Special Correspondent
NEW DELHI
ED summons 4 persons
in U.P. mining case
NEW DELHI
4 Cong. MLAs skip meet in Karnataka Rural housing achieves only 66% target
The Enforcement Directorate
Party moves lawmakers to a resort on the outskirts of Bengaluru States are delaying allotment of land for landless benefi ciaries, says Centre
(ED) has summoned four
persons, including an IAS
officer B. Chandrakala, and a
Special Correspondent Special Correspondent Ministry pointed out that on
Samajwadi Party leader, in
Bengaluru NEW DELHI ly 12% of the 4.72 lakh identi
the alleged illegal mining in In an indication that the on With two and a half months fi ed landless benefi ciaries
Uttar Pradesh’s Hamirpur going political drama in Kar to go for the end of this fi nan had been provided land for
district between 2012 and nataka is far from over, the cial year, the Pradhan Mantri house construction.
2016. The CBI had said the Congress on Friday, soon af Awas Yojana (Grameen) According to data provid
role of all mining Ministers ter the legislature party scheme to provide housing ed in the letter, some of the
during the check period, meeting that saw four of its for the rural poor has most laggard States as of July
which includes Samajwadi MLAs being absent, moved Fingers crossed: MPs and MLAs at the Congress Legislature achieved only 66% of its tar 2018 were Maharashtra,
Party chief Akhilesh Yadav, its fl ock to a resort on the Party meeting in Bengaluru on Friday. K. BHAGYA PRAKASH * get to complete one crore which had provided land for
would also be probed. But outskirts of Bengaluru fear houses. only 890 of 1.39 lakh landless
their names have not been The Ministry of Rural De benefi ciaries and Assam,
ing “poaching” by the BJP. the CLP meeting meant no (S)Congress coalition go
mentioned in the FIR. velopment still hopes to ad which had provided land for
With most MLAs of the immediate threat to the coa vernment was “safe” but the
BJP already away in a luxury lition government in terms party was not taking any vance further towards the 574 of 48,283 landless benef
Man killed in rhino hotel in Gurugram and their of its numbers, the BJP camp chances since the BJP was goal by the deadline of iciaries. In Bihar, only 55 out
attack in Assam Marchend, given that about of 5,348 benefi ciaries had
Congress counterparts now still remained hopeful of “ready to off er cash up to
GUWAHATI
moving to a resort, a signifi pulling down the govern ₹ 100 crore and a Ministerial 15 lakh homes have reached been allotted land. West Ben
A man, Dhunda Bhumij, was the late stages of construc gal had not allotted land for
killed in an attack by a one
cant number of lawmakers ment, according to sources berth” to legislators if they
of Karnataka are huddled in in the saff ron party. It is hop switched sides. tion with roofs ready to be The scheme has been suc little headway with regard to even a single one of its
horned rhino near a tea estate
diff erent locations. The Con ing to persuade disgruntled Of the 81 Congress mem added. Another 11 lakh cessful in reducing the aver one bloc of benefi ciaries: the 34,884 landless benefi ciar
on the southern fringe of
gress legislators and Minis Congress MLAs to resign “in bers, four — B. Nagendra, homes have reached the lin age time of construction landless, who do not possess ies. “There are about 2.4 lakh
Kaziranga National Park on
ters are expected to stay put batches”, thus destabilising Umesh Jadhav, Mahesh Ka tel level, and may be com from 314 days to 114 days, ac the land on which to con left [to be sanctioned] in Bi
Friday. Locals later blocked
pleted in the next few cording to an offi cial struct the PMAY homes they har and about 30,000 each
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Meghalaya CM pushes for
regulated coal mining
‘Ban has aff ected socioeconomic condition of the people’
RAHUL KARMAKAR engaged in the search and
GUWAHATI rescue operation at the coal
Meghalaya Chief Minister mine where 15 miners have
Conrad K. Sangma on Friday been trapped since Decem
sought regulated mining ber 13 are awaiting a decision
with “utmost care on safety from the local authorities to
of miners and environment” retrieve a body found by an
to help the State tide over re Conrad K. Sangma underwater Navy robot on
venue loss and provide relief Wednesday night.
to people dependent on generation for the State,” Mr. A few skeletons were de
coal. Sangma told Union Home tected in the rathole mine at
“There is a need to have Minister Rajnath Singh in Ksan in Meghalaya’s East
regulated mining in Megha New Delhi. Jaintia Hills district. The
laya with utmost care on sa The Chief Minister had search was halted on Friday
fety of miners and environ called on Mr. Singh along since the District Magistrate,
ment. The ban on mining with senior leaders of parties a doctor, a forensics expert
has aff ected the socioeco in his coalition government and the families have to be
nomic condition of the peo and offi cials from Megha present for them to conti
ple who are dependent on laya’s Department of Mining. nue, a Navy spokesperson
coal as well as loss of revenue Meanwhile, the agencies said.
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6 EDITORIAL DELHI
Some call it democracy
To call for the overthrow of a stale and fearful social system is not sedition. It is democracy
the closing down of the prestigious universities. The public university brought into existence.
university. Ironically, police bru is not a teaching shop. Within the This is precisely what young pe
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is needed to establish the Lokpal dents were determined to reenact cuss political predicaments, cafes governments all this while. People
the spectacular 1789 revolution and dhabas where they interact in power should recognise the im
I
t should have never come to this on the Lokpal. That
S
edition and conspiracy charg that had been left unfi nished in with costudents who come from portance of political debate in civil
it requires a Supreme Court order to nudge the go es have been fi led against some respects. They constructed diff erent regions of the country, society, they should learn to heed
vernment to make any progress towards establish three former students of Ja hundreds of barricades in the La and statues of leaders that form a demands catapulted into the pu
ing the antigraft institution is a poor commentary on waharlal Nehru University ( JNU), tin Quarter of Paris. The slogan rallying point for protests. The Vi blic domain by student associa
its functioning. The court has asked the eightmember and seven others. If these charges that inspired them to defy the pol vekananda statue outside the tions. If some hotheads shout ob
Search Committee under the Lokpal Act to recommend are established, 10 young Indians ice was: politics is the art of the im main library in the North Campus jectionable slogans, ignore them
a panel of names before the end of February. This shor could be sentenced to lifeterm im possible. and bankrupt political discourses. in Delhi University has been a ful as long as these do not lead to
tlist has to be sent to the Selection Committee, headed prisonment. A great deal has been On May 13, workers from the Re If the young do not struggle for crum of student politics since my harm. This is how mature democ
said and written about the need to nault factory joined the protests emancipation, who will? student days. racies behave.
by the Prime Minister. It has taken fi ve years since the
banish a 19th century law, intro and struck work. Factories were Through these activities, stu
Lokpal Act, 2013, received the President’s assent on Ja duced by Lord Macaulay, from the closed, trains ground to a halt, and Three years ago dents become familiar with the The political impulse
nuary 1, 2014, for a Search Committee to even begin its statute books. It may be time to the French government came to a Students assembled on the notion of citizenship. They con The age when young people were
work. It was formed only on September 27, 2018, after ask another question: what kind of standstill. De Gaulle had not taken grounds of JNU more than three nect with others, they learn that infatuated with the politics of the
Common Cause, an NGO, fi led a contempt petition a government wages war on its student demonstrations seriously; years ago spoke of liberation from they have the constitutional right impossible, 1968, ended, but it
against the government over the delay in constituting own students? History tells us that he had to pay for this serious lapse a casteridden and inegalitarian to challenge the power of elected threw up several movements that
the authority despite a Supreme Court verdict in April shortsighted governments do pre of judgment. He dissolved Parlia society. They reiterated the need representatives. It is in the univer changed the world. They recast
cisely this. ment and mobilised hundreds of to abolish capital punishment, sity that they absorb the virtue of gender relations, emphasised civil
2017. It is true that setting up the Search Committee re
supporters to counter the protest. which many fi ne legal minds have solidarity. It is here that they learn liberties, empowered alternative
quires some groundwork, as its composition should be The spirit of 1968 His party came back to power af also condemned. They pointed that in a democracy they have the sexualities, and familiarised us
drawn from diverse fi elds such as anticorruption poli In May 1968, students in universi ter the elections, but in the follow out that the government should right to make their own histories, with the tyrannies of power. That
cy, public administration, law, banking and insurance; ties across France rose in revolt ing April he resigned after his go address escalating tensions in the even if they make these histories was fi fty years ago. Once again, the
also, half its membership should consist of women, against hidebound, patriarchal vernment lost a referendum. He Kashmir Valley. Some elements, badly. young need to experience the
backward class, minority and SC/ST candidates. Ho and classgoverned structures, had thought the results would de reportedly outsiders, shouted an University students have the “blissful dawn” and call for the
wever, it is the government’s duty to expedite this pro from the family, the capitalist mar monstrate his acceptability to the tiIndia slogans. This is hardly se right to acquaint the public and overthrow of caste discrimination,
ket, to the government ruled by people of France. The French did dition. Will our great country and the government with depressing inequality, patriarchy and other
cess and not cite it as a reason for delay. Even after it
the conservative President Charles not forgive him for going to war ancient civilisation collapse be tales of how lives are led in an in remnants of an oppressive order
was formed, the Search Committee has been handi de Gaulle. In early 1968, students against his own students. cause of some idiotic slogans? We egalitarian society. In a represen in India. This will complete the ob
capped because of lack of offi ce space, manpower, in at the campus of the University of Fifty years later, May 1968 is re ought to have confi dence in the ca tative democracy we are supposed jectives of our freedom struggle,
frastructure and a secretariat. The court has now asked Paris at Nanterre, located on the membered as the month and the pacity of India to endure youthful to communicate opinions and de for political equality is inadequate
the government to provide the required infrastructure. outskirts of the capital city, had year when university students indiscretions, the country has sur mands through elected represen without social and economic
In the past too, the court has admonished the Centre launched a protest. They cam launched a political, cultural and vived infi nitely more serious at tatives. But representatives, we equality.
for the delay in creating the institution. In its April 2017 paigned against the involvement sexual revolution. And the world tacks on its territorial integrity. It have found, are too busy manipu To call for the overthrow of a
of Western governments in the recollected the words of the En is ridiculous to charge students lating public opinion to get power. stale and fearful social system is
verdict, the court brushed aside the reason that the go
Vietnam War, against sexual un glish poet William Wordsworth, with sedition when all that they Fairly early in the biography of re not sedition. We call it democracy.
vernment was awaiting the passage of an amendment freedom, and for the realisation of who in The Prelude wrote of the were asking for was the breaking presentative democracy, citizens We fi ght for democracy not, in
based on a parliamentary committee report and said liberty that the French had, less 1789 French Revolution: “Bliss was of shackles. realised that they would have to Wordsworth’s words, “in Utopia,
there was no legal bar on the Selection Committee mov than 200 years ago, fought for. In it in that dawn to be alive, But to be There was no violence, no call put forth their needs, their inter subterranean fi elds, Or some se
ing ahead with its work even if there was a vacancy in it. May, students at the Sorbonne ex young was very heaven! O times to use force or grind the capital ci ests, and their aspirations into the creted island…But in the very
There is a good deal of politics behind the delay. The pressed solidarity with their fellow …When Reason seemed the most ty of Delhi to a halt, no suggestion public domain through networks world, which is the world/ Of all of
Selection Committee, which includes the Lok Sabha students, and revolted. to assert her rights.” Wordsworth that the gathering lay siege to offi of associations. The intent is not to us, the place where in the end/ We
Speaker, the Leader of the Opposition, the Chief Justice Young women and men took to was perceptive. The vision, the cial institutions, or ask for the re contest elections or take over the fi nd our happiness, or not at all.”
the streets, and as a result were energy and the language invented signation of the government. The state — the idea is to raise issues,
of India and an eminent jurist, has met in the past with
beaten up by the police. Hundreds by rebellious young people inject a conversation was in perfect con and provoke debates on what the Neera Chandhoke is a former Professor of
out Mallikarjun Kharge, who heads the Congress in the of them were arrested. This led to breath of fresh air into our jaded formity with the spirit of public good society is, and how it can be Political Science at Delhi University
Lok Sabha. He has been skipping meetings, as he is ag
grieved that the government has not made him a full
member, and has roped him in as a ‘special invitee’.
The government sticks to its view that he has not been
recognised as the Leader of the Opposition by the
The danger of reciprocity
Speaker. This minor issue has been resolved in respect It is vital the Supreme Court collegium remains fi rmly independent
of appointments to other posts such as CBI Director and down the Modi government’s im cieties is that individuals are obli judgments or even on public plat
Central Vigilance Commissioner by a simple amend position of President’s rule in Utta gated to reciprocate favours re forms.” A similar depiction of the
rakhand and saw the government ceived. Gouldner articulated the apex court was made by Justice
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ndependence, impartiality and tion to the collegium for reconsid In his NJAC judgment (2015), vour of upholding the orders of
fearlessness of judges are not eration, but approved the appoint Justice J.S. Khehar discussed the is the government. Under the cover
Shape of the slowdown private rights of judges but citi
zen’s rights. Ultimately judicial leg
ments instantly. es. Unlike in the U.S. where judges
are appointed by the President
sue of reciprocity at length in strik
ing down the commission. He re
of high sounding words like social
justice the court passed orders,
China’s capacity to manage its economic itimacy/ power rests on people’s Learnings from the past and are known to be leaning to ferred to Laura E. Little’s work on the eff ect of which was to unsettle
confi dence in courts. We have yet Take the case of Justice A.N. Ray, wards the Democrats or Republi American judges who felt obliged settled principles and dilute or un
transition has implications the world over another controversy surrounding who was appointed Chief Justice of cans, Indian judges are not sup to the President for nominating do the dicta laid down in the ear
the Supreme Court, with the colle India (CJI) in 1973 superseding posed to have any political them and Senators who helped lier cases.”
T
he Chinese growth juggernaut is slowing down.
The world’s secondlargest economy has report gium revisiting decisions made at three senior judges, or Justice affi liation. But is it possible to com them in the confi rmation process. The Hindu right’s opposition to
an earlier meeting and recom M.H. Beg, who was appointed CJI pletely insulate judges from go Justice Khehar therefore preferred the Constitution is an open secret.
ed that its exports for December fell by 4.4%, the
mending the elevation of two ju superseding Justice H.R. Khanna vernmental infl uence? The answer exclusion of the political executive The prospect of a 15judge bench
sharpest fall in two years amidst rising trade tensions nior judges to the Supreme Court. in 1977. Both Justice Ray and Jus is no — as George Orwell pointed from the appointment of judges as overturning Kesavananda Bharati .
with the United States and fears of a global economic No one has any doubts about the tice Beg were excellent judges, but out in 1984, the government is eve a feeling of gratitude towards the v. State of Kerala (1973), which out
slowdown. China’s trade surplus with the U.S. has in competence or integrity of Justice favoured the government. They rywhere, and judges as fellow hu government impacts the indepen lined the basic structure doctrine
creased to $323 billion, its highest level since 2016 and Sanjiv Khanna and Justice Dinesh were considered not forwardlook man beings do get infl uenced by it. dence of the judiciary. It was for of the Constitution, does not look
up 17% from a year ago. This is likely to put added pres Maheshwari, but the manner in ing judges but judges who looked The judiciary asserts its position this very reason that even B.R. too remote in the near future if the
sure on Chinese exports to the U.S. Besides, China’s fac which it was carried out puts the forward to the offi ce of the CJI. only when the government is Ambedkar wanted to insulate the government continues to exert
spotlight once again on the contro In the bank nationalisation case weak. This collegium system was judiciary from political pressures. pressure on the collegium and if
tory activity contracted to a twoyear low by the end of
versial collegium system of judicial (1970), while as many as 10 judges asserted when we had weak Cen In his autobiography, Roses in the collegium, due to reciprocity,
December while car sales in 2018 dropped for the fi rst appointments. went against the government, Jus tral governments in the 1990s. December, the former Chief Justice does not eff ectively assert its pow
time since 1990, pointing to faltering demand from Chi This seriously undermines the tice Ray approved the govern of the Bombay High Court, M.C. er and independence. Most go
nese consumers. There are increasing fears that the independence of judges and raises ment’s action. Similarly, Justice Power and infl uence Chagla, who also served as a Minis vernments prefer pliable judges
Chinese government may further drop its growth target unnecessary doubts about the Beg, in the Indira Gandhi election ‘Power’ and ‘infl uence’ are funda ter in Indira Gandhi’s Cabinet, but many of our judges remain
to 6% this year, from 6.5% last year. Given its implica credibility of the highest court as case, held that while democracy is mental concepts in society. ‘In boldly stated the adverse impact wedded to their oath and decide
tions for global growth, markets across the world have the government is not only the big the basic structure, free and fair fl uence’ is sometimes considered of supersession when he said, “the cases without fear or favour. True
gest litigator but also the greatest election is not. to be an aspect of ‘power’. Indira eff ect of these supersessions was reciprocity aff ects humans but
naturally been worried about the fate of the Chinese
threat to the abuse of power. Judi The National Judicial Appoint Gandhi was infl uential because most deleterious on the judges of since our judges are addressed as
economy. Its stock market, in particular, was the worst cial review as a concept is sup ments Commission (NJAC) was she was powerful. Prime Minister the Supreme Court who were in ‘Lords’, let them not have any feel
performing among major economies last year. Apple, posed to control the government struck down by the Supreme Narendra Modi is, similarly, not the line of succession to the Chief ing of gratitude towards anyone.
Jaguar Land Rover and other companies have warned and keep it in check. Court because it would have com only powerful but hugely infl uen Justiceship. Each eyed the other
of weak earnings due to a slowdown in their sales in How has this panned out in the promised the independence of the tial. According to the American so with suspicion and tried to outdo Faizan Mustafa is ViceChancellor,
China. Responding to fears of a serious slowdown in the past? Let’s look back at the Justice CJI and given a role to the govern ciologist, Alvin Ward Gouldner, him in proclaiming his loyalty to NALSAR University of Law, Hyderabad.
economy, the People’s Bank of China on Wednesday in K.M. Joseph case. He had struck ment in the appointment of judg the universal norm in human so the Government either in their The views expressed are personal
jected cash worth $83 billion into the economy through
open market operations in order to boost bank lending LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Letters emailed to letters@thehindu.co.in must carry the full postal address and the full name or the name with initials.
and overall economic growth. It is believed that the Chi
nese government may be prepping for a stimulus worth Rafale cost infl ation Dassault Aviation would not ombudsman such as a ■ The exclusive report misses which delayed the legatee of a glorious past.
trillions of yuans to step up spending in the economy. The exclusive report by N. have been allowed to make Lokayukta before whom the fact that the deal was a acquisition. R.S.V. Subramanian,
China has been struggling to transition from its ear Ram on the Rafale fi ghter a windfall out of the deal even the Prime Minister distress purchase as the Hari Arayammakul, Puducherry
driven economy. But it is not clear whether China is Whether the accoutrements has become necessary to party and the rest of the government had indeed the version of a daily now more letters online:
— couched in fl owery terms order a thorough probe by a Opposition. It is very apt that applied the alternative off er masquerading itself as the www.hindu.com/opinion/letters/
willing to bite the bullet and stop feeding its economy
such as “design and parliamentary committee the last sentence says, “What as leverage for bargaining.
with cheap credit. It may be tempted to go further and development of India into the deal. In any case, it seems guaranteed is that we Anyhow, the responsibility
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>>A story headlined “Cdr. Tomy eager to get back to sea”
look at socialising the losses coming from defaults on specifi c enhancements” — is taxpayers’ money which is have not heard the last of for the fi nancial loss to the ( Jan. 18, 2019, some editions) erroneously called him Commodore
business loans. None of this will be good for the long were needed to make the being spent to procure these l’aff aire Rafale.” exchequer should also be Abhilash Tomy. Actually he is a Commander.
term health of the Chinese or the global economy. aircraft battleready is still aircraft. A longterm solution Sankaranarayanan R., shared by the United The Readers’ Editor’s office can be contacted by Telephone: +91-44-28418297/28576300;
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rom 10 feet away, it looked like a
grin, the row of teeth stretching
from ear to ear. Freshly dug out
from many layers of soil, the mudco
vered skeleton lay on its spine, awaiting
a number.
“That would be 283,” says W.R.A.S.
Rajapaksa. He is standing on an eleva
tion inside the site, located at a busy
junction in Mannar, an island town in
Sri Lanka’s Tamilmajority Northern
Province. In his blue smock, the Consul
tant Judicial Medical Offi cer at Mannar
District General Hospital looks like a
surgeon, except that this operation is
taking place under the sun, inside a
messy soil pit. So he is also wearing a
cap and rubber boots.
On a Monday morning earlier this
month, at least four skeletons were
clearly visible at the site, while parts of
another were protruding from the soil.
Where they lay — some piled one on top
of the other and a couple to the side — it
was at least two metres below ground
level, says Rajapaksa, the chief investi
gator of the latest mass grave to be
found in Sri Lanka.
As of Friday ( January 18), 300 skele
tons, including those of 23 children be
low the age of 12, have been identifi ed.
Members of his team that comprised fel
low judicial medical offi cers, forensic
archaeologists and analysts had res
umed excavating the skeletons after a
break for Christmas and the New Year.
Wetting their brushes in a cup of water,
they gently pried aside the soil deposits
over the bones, making them visible, lit
tle by little, to the world they had left be
hind.
‘Scene of crime’
“We consider this a scene of crime until
proven otherwise,” says Rajapaksa on
what happens to be the 125th day of the
excavation, being undertaken following
a directive from the Mannar magistrate
court. The bodies had been found
“dumped”, instead of being “laid to
rest” beside each other, as would be the
case in a cemetery. Uncovered bit by bit: Pedestrians and motorists often stop to catch a glimpse of the grave site that has drawn media attention. * MEERA SRINIVASAN
In March 2018, construction workers
stumbled upon human remains while north struggle to recover from the eve with submerged bones. es coexisting with unexpectedly found Rights Council (UNHRC) session in Ge
preparing to build a new outlet for the ryday imprint of trauma. Even if they Mothers of those who disappeared in human remains in the heart of town, neva, that Sri Lankan President Maithri
staterun cooperative Sathosa (in place choose to look ahead rather than be the runup to the fi nal phase of the war the mass grave has also set off consider pala Sirisena appointed the commis
of its old building that had been demol hind, healing is not easy as they strive to in 2009 — many after being reportedly able speculation within and outside sioners to the OMP. The OMP has held at
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ished). Little did they know that they make ends meet in a battered economy taken by state agencies for “question Mannar. Stories travel, supplemented least seven public sittings in diff erent
would be uncovering one of Sri Lanka’s with no promising jobs and few sym ing” — are far from accepting that their by recollections of senior citizens districts in the waraff ected north, east
largest mass graves almost a decade af pathetic political leaders who chose ac child could be dead. Those looking for —some of whom remember a bank and the south, where disappearances
ter the civil war ended in 2009. tion over rhetoric. relatives who went missing in the 1990s building at the site before the nowde have been reported.
Says Rajapaksa, “Of the 283 skeletons Amarasingam Ranjini’s son, who was allow for that option, but have no way to molished cooperative store was built — Says parliamentarian Charles Nirma
identifi ed here so far, we have excavated in the LTTE, went missing in the sum reconcile with it in the absence of evi and acquiring new details and narra lanathan at his party offi ce a few
277 and stored them at the court pre mer of 1999. He was born when she was dence, says Jena Jayakanthi, a Mannar tives. hundred metres from the site, “So far
mises.” still in her teens following her early mar based activist working with the families Home to nearly 1 lakh people, mostly the OMP has at least been transparent
Samples will be sent to a laboratory riage. “They [army] took him for ques of the disappeared. “If you haven’t seen Tamils (Catholics, Hindus) and Tamil about what they can and can’t do. We
in the U.S., in Miami, Florida, possibly tioning, and he has not come back in your child’s body, how do you begin to speaking Muslims, Mannar is the most need a thorough and complete investi
next week, for carbon dating analysis. these 20 years,” she says. While her oth believe that he is dead?” she asks. religiously diverse district in the north. gation into this mass grave. People want
The process, which is often used in ar er son and daughter now live in India, The Sri Lankan Army has repeatedly During the war, the LTTE was in control a resolution.”
chaeology and forensic study, would as Ranjini, 60, stays in her hometown all denied having played a role, but has of mainland Mannar, part of the Vanni Reacting to the discovery of mass
certain the amount of Carbon14 in bone alone. done little else to explain what hap region sandwiched between the Sinha graves in Mannar, the international non
and teeth samples. This could help esta She still hopes to see her son one day. pened to those its personnel picked up lamajority south of Sri Lanka and the governmental organisation Human
blish the approximate period in which “I do believe he is alive somewhere and for “questioning”, or the others who northern Jaff na peninsula. On the other Rights Watch says, “Sri Lankan authori
the person lived, before it possibly leads I will continue looking for him. But were seen surrendering to its offi cers. hand, Mannar island itself was, for the ties should ensure that the Offi ce of Mis
investigators to the likely year of their when I saw this mass grave site and Manoharan Vetrimalar, who is look most part, under the jurisdiction of the sing Persons is able to operate properly,
death or to those behind it. heard about the hundreds of bodies be ing for her disappeared son and sonin Sri Lankan Army and Navy, recalls Ran and should set up an impartial transi
At 9.45 in the morning, the shops in ing unearthed, I wondered if one of law, raises her grandchildren in Mannar jini, quickly pulling out her 1999 “Army tional justice process that was pledged
the area are open and teeming with cus them could be my son. The thought did while her daughter works in Saudi Ara IC” or the identity card distributed by at the Human Rights Council.”
tomers. With the post offi ce, market cross my mind,” she says, breaking bia as a house help to support the fami the Army, that was used to keep track of The last time mass graves were al
and the bus terminus all in the same vi The lull in business had little to do down, torn between denial and resigna ly. She says, “The grama sevaka (village those moving between Mannar island leged in Mannar was in late 2013, near
cinity, a number of vehicles crisscross with the excavation nearby. Months of tion. offi cer) told me to obtain a death certif and the mainland. the famed Thiruketheeswaram Shiva
the grand bazaar area, or periyakadai erratic weather — a severe drought fol It was this “doubleedged” fear that icate for my missing relatives, so that I Says Vetrimalar, “Our district has temple, and later in 2016, in a well not
sandi as the locals call it. Motorists on lowed by fl ash fl oods — had aff ected the Sri Lankanborn writer Michael On can receive some fi nancial assistance seen a lot. I have very vivid images of far from this temple. The investigation
their way to work slow down and turn both the harvest and prices, adds Sal daatje described in his novel Anil’s for their loss. My daughter said nothing shells piercing through walls, people into the 2013 ‘sighting’ by the residents
their heads 90 degrees to catch a man. He has been running the stall here Ghost. “There was always the fear, dou doing, we have not seen the body and falling dead, and of the many who were of the area is yet to be completed, with
glimpse of the grave site that has drawn for 12 years, he says, from the time he bleedged, that it was their son in the we cannot accept that.” But the fami badly injured. Now, 10 years after the some offi cials reportedly declaring the
media attention to their otherwise ne returned from Kalpitiya in Puttalam, pit, or that it was not their son — which lies, she adds, are fatigued after years of war ended, we are desperately looking grave to be a part of a cemetery. For lo
glected town. some 240 km south, where many Mus meant there would be further search petitioning diff erent state commissions for our missing relatives but no answers cals, though, questions linger. In the
Pedestrians stop and watch for a few lims like him had fl ed after the LTTE or ing,” he wrote, of a fi ctional grave site and repeating their stories. “And then have been forthcoming. Shouldn’t we 2016 case, investigators told the magis
seconds. Perhaps deterred by the un dered their expulsion from the north in when a mass grave like this is found, it is know what really happened to them?” trate court that there were no human
<
> Ifbody,
iformed policemen and Special Task October 1990. you haven’t seen your child’s very disturbing.” The Sri Lankan government set up remains.
Force personnel stationed under a He says, “Had the cooperative store how do you begin to the Offi ce on Missing Persons (OMP) in The inquiry into the Matale mass
neem tree adjoining the site, some come up across the road as planned, believe that he is dead?” Getting to the bottom of it 2016 to investigate the scores of cases of grave found in 2012 in the island’s Cen
move a safe distance away before pull they would have sold vegetables like Jena Jayakanthi,
Apart from the troubling reality of unre missing persons, reported from both tral Province has also stalled, despite
ing out their smart phones for a picture onions for at least fi ve rupees lesser. Activist, Mannar solved cases of enforced disappearanc the former war zones in the northeast, the leftwing Janatha Vimukthi Peramu
of the ongoing exhumation. That would have hit me harder.” and during the state’s ferocious crack na’s ( JVP) demands for a full investiga
Mannar district, along Sri Lanka’s Even at the other shops adjoining the down on radical Sinhala youth in the tion of the site where, some believe, its
northwestern coast, is part mainland site, managers spoke only of practical south in the late 1980s. Amnesty Inter activists and sympathisers could have
and part small island, connected by a hindrances. The trucks bringing their national estimates a total of at least been interred during the state repres
causeway. The mass grave has surfaced supplies from Colombo now stop at the 60,000 disappearances in the country. sion of the JVP in 1971 and again in 1987
at the district’s main town on Mannar is main road, since the excavation site is The exact number of missing persons 89. Yet another mass grave in Kaluwan
land, a thin patch of land jutting into the cordoned off , along with the lane to from Mannar is not clear. The OMP has chikudy was found in the eastern Batti
Palk Strait like a little fi n. On the west these shops. The load is physically car so far not put out lists or numbers, per caloa district in 2014, but the excavation
ern tip of this little island is Talaiman ried to the stores by workers, unlike ear haps because its own task includes com did not see much progress.
nar, the closest point to Dhanushkodi in lier, when the trucks could drive into paring and verifying fi gures mentioned In the recentlydiscovered site in
India, in Tamil Nadu’s Rameswaram dis the lane. For the row of shops here, the in previous lists compiled by other com Mannar, the team is working largely on
trict. Some 30 km apart and with a nar implications of having a mass grave un missions. a voluntary basis. Says Rajapaksa, who
row stretch of the Indian Ocean running earthed in their midst seemed, at best, Says OMP chairman Saliya Pieris, has led teams at two other mass graves
between them, Talaimannar and Ra logistical. “The OMP has been acting as an obser in the past, “There are no standard op
meswaram were once connected by a ver in this case since June 2, 2018 as it is erating procedures in place in Sri Lanka
popular ferry service that, since the Cycle of distress a mass grave site that may relate to cases to deal with mass graves.”
1980s, has been defunct. In the nearly However, for some residents a little of disappearances and missing persons He says, “We haven’t fi nished exca
three decades of Sri Lanka’s civil war, further away from the site, the excava that fall under our mandate.” The offi ce vating yet. We will continue until we get
waged by the state armed forces against tion and the sighting of skeletal remains stepped in last year to fi nancially sup to what we call a bonefree margin, to
the rebel Liberation Tigers of Tamil Ee has meant another cycle of distress. Es port the excavation eff orts and will also rule out any more bones,” suggesting
lam (LTTE), both towns bore witness to pecially if they happen to be like the help transport the samples to a testing that the number of skeletons could in
mass displacement, rough boat rides, thousands of mothers looking for a laboratory in Florida. crease further. Giving no room for spec
and prolonged separation but also a loved one who forcibly disappeared Some among the families of the dis ulation on who the dead may be and
precious solidarity among the common during those tumultuous war years. appeared are sceptical of the OMP’s when they were killed, he adds, “We
people. A war that spanned 30 years, a savage ability to provide them the answers they cannot resort to any prejudgment with
state unleashing mass violence, armed have been chasing for years. Most of out evidence. These are bodies that
Business as usual militant groups off ering resistance — at them have already testifi ed before mul have been heaped up. And no one
Says Meeramohideen Salman, a vegeta times with their own brand of brutality tiple governmentappointed panels ear knows who did this. No one, except
ble vendor who has a small shop right — have meant a massive human cost. lier, to no avail. those who did it. We have to fi nd out.”
opposite the mass grave site, “It has not The casualties were more than a lakh, as Says Jeyakanthi, “This is a state insti His observation echoes those of many
been a great season. I have had to slash in some estimates. With the unresolved tution. How can a party accused of com mothers who desire to unearth the
prices to make sure I sell enough. On a mysteries of the deaths and disappea “We haven’t fi nished excavating yet. We will continue until we get to what we call a mitting a crime probe it fairly and deliv truth buried with the bodies. Until then,
good day, I make about LKR 3,500 a day rances of Tamil rebels, activists, jour bonefree margin, to rule out any more bones,” says W.R.A.S. Rajapaksa (in the blue er justice to the victims?” they will remain bare bones, carefully
[about ₹ 1,360], and it is barely enough nalists, and scores of civilians haunting smock), Consultant Judicial Medical Offi cer at the Mannar District General It was in March 2018, just around the wrapped and safely stored, bearing only
to feed my family.” them for years, the survivors in the Hospital. MEERA SRINIVASAN
* time of the United Nations Human a number.
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“Under the UPAnegotiated The Congress leader also Soon after landing here, Ja the Lok Sabha Mallikarjun BJP’s Kisan Morcha chief
deal, it would have been questioned the manner in nata Dal(S) leader H.D. Deve Kharge will reach here on Sa Veerendra Singh Mast on
spread over 126 aircraft. Un which decisions were taken Gowda and Samajwadi Party turday, Ms. Banerjee said. Friday indicated that some
der the NDAnegotiated deal by the Indian Negotiating chief Akhilesh Yadav com Ms. Banerjee has indicat big decisions for the farm
it will be spread over 36 air Team (INT), by a 4:3 majori mended Trinamool Con ed that she is not too keen on sector, specifi cally to boost
craft,” Mr. Chidambaram ty. gress chief and West Bengal pushing the idea of an anti the income of farmers,
said. “The vote of 43 itself tells Chief Minister Mamata Ba Congress platform any more. were on the anvil. This
“It seems to me that Das a story. Has it ever hap nerjee for her eff ort to bring Asked about the future of the came a day after Finance
sault is laughing all the way pened before in a defence the antiBJP parties together federal front, she said on Minister Arun Jaitley hint
to the bank. The govern purchase? Why was it so im on one platform for a mega Thursday: “I’m not giving it ed that the Budget exercise
ment has wronged the coun portant in this deal to take rally in the city’s Brigade Pa [Saturday’s rally] any name. may see an announcement
try in two ways. Firstly, it every decision by a 43 vote rade Ground on Saturday. The regional parties will be or two of the kind.
has compromised national brushing aside every objec At least two dozen top na the deciding factor.” At the Mr. Mast was briefi ng
security by denying to the tion? I mean as a lawyer, I tional leaders are expected same time she has also said journalists about the na
Air Force 90 fi ghter aircraft have heard about it in judg to participate in the Trina that the “BJP will get less tional executive meet of
that they desperately need. ments in Courts but never in moolhosted rally. than 125 seats” indicating the farmers’ cell of the par
Secondly, it has purchased a Government decision,” he “We have understood that her growing preference for ty to be held on February
two squadrons that will cost said. “I think a JPC should Mamataji has taken all the the Congress. Mr. Rao, who 23 and 24 at Gorakhpur
about €25 million more per be constituted and it should responsibility of bringing re More support: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee greeting DMK president was the fi rst big leader to with Prime Minister Naren
aircraft and at 2016 ex be requested to submit its gional parties together and I M.K. Stalin as SP chief Akhilesh Yadav looks on at a city hotel in Kolkata on Friday. PTI *
back Ms. Banerjee’s plan to dra Modi expected to ad
change rate,(€25 million is report by the end of March. thank her,” Mr. Gowda said. oppose both the BJP and dress the concluding
equal to ₹ 186 crore) India I think it can be done,” he Mr. Yadav said the “call for kata by evening. Dravida jee and her nephew Abhi met Telangana Chief Minis Congress, is not attending session.
will pay ₹ 186 crore more per said, in reply to a question. change which has started Munnetra Kazhagam leader sekh Banerjee, MP. The city ter K. Chandrasekhar Rao to the Brigade rally. “The Narendra Modi go
aircraft,” he said. from West Bengal will echo M.K. Stalin, Karnataka Chief is full of hoardings featuring nurture the idea of an “anti Asked what changed in vernment has already ta
“The windfall to Dassault ‘Done in great hurry’ across the country”. “The Minister and JD(S) leader leaders representing the en Congress, antiBJP” federal the past few months for Ms. ken many historic deci
is highly questionable. It is CPI(M) general secretary Sit country wants a change; it H.D. Kumaraswamy, Andhra tire antiBJP spectrum. front. Banerjee to soften her stand, sions for farmers’ welfare
undeserved. It was certainly aram Yechury said Mr. Modi wants a new government Pradesh CM and TDP leader “There will be so many a senior Congress leader in and, in the near future,
not as per negotiation, it had been blocking a JPC be and a new Prime Minister. N. Chandrababu Naidu, so leaders that it would be diffi Rahul’s support Bengal said, “One factor is some more decisions will
was a deliberate decision,” cause of the facts that were [The] message will go from cialist leader Sharad Yadav, cult to allot more than 10 mi Ten months later, on the eve the Congress victory in three be taken to boost farmers’
Mr. Chidambaram said. He emerging now. “No doubt Bengal and from Didi and it former BJP Minister Arun nutes to each of them,” said a of her “United India Rally”, key States.” Another leader income,” he said.
claimed the revised terms that the deal for 36 Rafale will be a message for Shourie and Jharkhand Muk close aide of Ms. Banerjee. Congress president Rahul said the Congress had man Mr. Mast declined to
not only ensured that Das fi ghter jets with France was change,” he said. ti Morcha leader Hemant So Trinamool activists have ar Gandhi wrote to the Trina aged to establish “produc share any details. He main
sault could recover its cost/ done in a great hurry by Mo Nationalist Congress Party ren too are in the city. Con rived from all over West Ben mool chief extending “sup tive cooperation” with all an tained that loan waivers of
amortise the ‘design and de di for the benefi t of his cro chief Sharad Pawar and gress leaders are expected gal and are housed in various port to Mamata Di on this tiBJP forces other than the kind announced by the
velopment’ cost of ISE in a ny businessman, at the cost former Arunachal Pradesh early on Saturday. stadiums; food is distributed show of unity and hope that Trinamool and the Aam Aad Congressled governments
shorter period of time but of India’s national security Chief Minister Gegong The city is covered with at various points in the city. we send a powerful message mi Party. “Ms. Banerjee per were not a permanent so
also get a higher ‘value of and at a heavy cost to the In Apang, who quit the BJP a Trinamool’s fl ags and bill Exactly 10 months ago, on of a united India together” haps realised that she may lution to the problems fac
money.’ dian exchequer. It is crystal few days ago, arrived in Kol boards featuring Ms. Baner March 19, 2018, Ms. Banerjee and dispatched one of the get marginalised,” he said. ing the farmers.
clear now, and no amount
Demand for JPC again of spin will help,” tweeted
The Comptroller and
ignoring others, creates
doubts by vested interests on
a matter of vital national
an eye on the Lok Sabha
election.
“It is no longer a secret …
years, you do nothing and
then you suddenly wake up
and make these policies for
IN BRIEF
Nagaland can DMK moves HC
reject Bill,
says BJP ally against 10% quota
SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT
Says it violates the Constitution
GUWAHATI
India inks agreement Mohamed Imranullah S.
for Uzbek uranium The Nationalist Democratic CHENNAI
GANDHINAGAR Progressive Party (NDPP), DMK organising secretary
To meet India’s long-term a coalition partner of the R.S. Bharathi has fi led a writ
energy requirements, Prime BJP in Nagaland, said the petition in the Madras High
Minister Narendra Modi and State had the constitution Court, challenging the legal
Uzbek President Shakat al provision to reject the Ci validity of the recent
Mirziyoyev on Friday inked a tizenship (Amendment) amendment made to the
pact for import of uranium Bill, 2016. Constitution granting 10%
from the Central Asian Dialogue on: Rajnath Singh meeting Chief Ministers of Meghalaya and Mizoram Conrad Sangma and Zoramthanga. Nagaland, along with
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PTI reservation in jobs and high
country. The agreement was
other northeastern States, er education admission for
signed at an event on the
Northeast to see publicity blitz
has witnessed several prot the economically weaker
sidelines of Vibrant Gujarat
ests following the passage sections in the open compe
Summit where Mr. Mirziyoyev
is one of the chief guests, in
of the Bill in the Lok Sabha.
The NDPPBJP govern
tition category.
Senior counsel P. Wilson,
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> Itexaggeration
is not an
to say
addition to a deal for $200
million credit for housing ment, headed by Neiphiu representing the petitioner, the Bill was foisted
projects in Uzbekistan. Centre says it’s not the only region that hosts minorities from the neighbourhood Rio, has been under pres mentioned the matter be on the Lok Sabha
sure from tribal groups to fore a Division Bench of Jus R.S. Bharathi
Meghalaya, Mizoram
Women to be inducted Vijaita Singh can reside in any State of the oppose the Bill. tices S. Manikumar and Sub DMK organising secretary
Major reshuffl e in Ambassador team
New envoys for Israel, Mexico, South Africa, Argentina, New Zealand, Vietnam
Suhasini Haidar dor, Aishath Mohamed Didi, try’s headquarters at pre
New Delhi a former Education Minister, sent, will move to Vietnam.
In a major reshuffl e, the Ex arrived in Delhi to present Sudhakar Dalela, Joint Secre
ternal Aff airs Ministry has her credentials. tary (North), who handled
decided on sending new Am In other decisions, a key Nepal and Bhutan, will head
bassadors to Israel, Mexico, offi cial in the Prime Minis to Chicago as ConsulGener
South Africa, Argentina, ter’s Offi ce, Sanjeev Singla, al, sources said.
New Zealand and Vietnam. who has been Prime Minis According to offi cials,
There will also be two signif ter Narendra Modi’s private more than 20 ambassadorial
icant changes in the neigh secretary for the past few and key consulate positions
bourhood, coinciding with years, is being sent to Israel are expected to come up for
new governments being Manpreet Vohra in place of Ambassador Pa change between January and
elected in Bhutan and the van Kapoor. June, though some of the
Maldives, Ministry sources Sarkar, who is moving from postings are yet to be an
said. Thimphu to Pretoria in her Mexican assignment nounced and the timing of
High Commissioner to place. Former Ambassador to Af the moves will depend on
South Africa Ruchira Kham Sunjay Sudhir, now with ghanistan Manpreet Vohra is documents or “agreements”
boj is expected to be posted the Petroleum Ministry, has being sent to Mexico, and being cleared by host coun
to Thimphu after completing been chosen to move to the will replace Ambassador tries. Among the senior ap
the visit of South African Maldives, an important post Muktesh Pardeshi, who, ac pointments in the past few
President Cyril Ramaphosa, ing given the reset in ties bet cording to reports, will move months were of Ambassa
who will be the chief guest ween the two countries to New Zealand. dors to Washington and Lon
for the Republic Day parade. since the election of Presi Pranay Verma, who has don, where Harsh Shringla
Ms. Khamboj would ex dent Ibu Solih. On Friday, been a diplomat handling and Ruchi Ghanshyam took
change places with Jaideep the new Maldivian Ambassa South East Asia at the Minis charge respectively.
India fl ays Pakistani SC Flight to link
Ayodhya,
move on GilgitBaltistan Janakpur
JAGRITI CHANDRA
NEW DELHI
10 WORLD DELHI
ELSEWHERE Russian fi ghter
U.S., N. Korean diplomats meet in Sweden U.S. peace envoy jets collide,
Kim’s right-hand man meets Trump to decide on second U.S.-North Korea summit meets Imran Khan crews eject
Reuters rea. The meeting, which will ing progress on North Korea Press Trust of India reshi. Mr. Qureshi is said to Agence France-Presse
STOCKHOLM continue over the weekend, by saying that Pyongyang Islamabad have assured Mr. Khalilzad Moscow
Highranking diplomats has been planned in secret had stopped missile and U.S. peace envoy Zalmay of Pakistan’s support for a Two Russian Su34 fi ghter
from the United States and for months. bomb testing and if it had Khalilzad met with Pakis peace process, which has jets collided on Friday over
North Korea are currently Sweden’s Foreign Minister not been for his administra tan’s Prime Minister Imran suff ered a setback because the Sea of Japan during a
holding talks in Sweden aim Margot Wallstrom, Cabinet tion ”you’d be having a nice, Khan and other offi cials on of the Taliban’s refusal to di training fl ight, with both
Asif Khosa takes oath as ing to end the standoff bet Secretary Annika Soder and big, fat war in Asia.” Friday as part of eff orts rectly talk to the Afghan go crews managing to eject,
new Pak. Chief Justice ween the two countries, a di Sweden’s envoy to Korea Meanwhile, Kim Yong aimed at fi nding a peaceful vernment in Kabul. the Defence Ministry said.
ISLAMABAD
plomatic source said on Kent Harstedt are also sitting Chol, a righthand man to solution to the war in Af The U.S. hopes that Pakis During a scheduled
Justice Asif Saeed Khosa,
known for adding lyrical fl air
Friday. in on the talks, the source Mr. Kim, met Mr. Trump at ghanistan, offi cials said. tan can help in ending the training, the bombers
in his judgments, on Friday “After the meeting in Sin said. the White House after hold In a statement, the Pakis confl ict by convincing the touched midair and fell in
took oath as the 26th Chief gapore, things have ground U.S. President Donald ing talks with Secretary of tan government said Mr. Taliban to meet with the U.S. to the sea near the Strait of
Justice of Pakistan in a to a halt. The purpose of this Trump and North Korean State Mike Pompeo on Fri Khalilzad briefed Mr. Khan and Afghan offi cials. Islama Tartary that separates the
ceremony here, which was meeting is to inject some leader Kim Jongun met in day in a diplomatic fl urry “on his recent visits to the bad says it will do whatever Sakhalin island from Rus
also attended by foreign energy and to take steps for Kim Yong Chol Singapore in June last year aimed at laying the ground region to muster support for possible for peace amid sia's mainland, according
legal luminaries, including ward in the relations bet for talks aimed at ending a #331007
work for a second U.S.North the Afghan reconciliation speculation that eff orts were to the country's Investiga
former Indian SC judge ween the U.S. and North Ko Hui, North Korea’s Vice Fo nuclear standoff on the Ko Korea summit. It marked a process.” under way to arrange a tive Committee.
Madan Bhimarao Lokur. rea,” the source said. reign Minister, and Stephen rean peninsula. rare sign of progress in Earlier, Mr. Khalilzad met meeting between Mr. Khalil The committee said it
Justice Khosa, 64, was The source said the dele Biegun, the U.S. Special Re Earlier this month, Mr. reaching a denuclearisation with Pakistan’s Foreign Mi zad and the Taliban in Pakis had opened a criminal in
administered oath by gations included Choe Son presentative for North Ko Trump defended the stutter deal to end the standoff . nister Shah Mahmood Qu tan. vestigation into the case.
President Arif Alvi. He will
retire on December 21. PTI
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Shares sink to 6year low after second whistleblower levels charge of corporate governance violation
Special Correspondent other stakeholders. It is evi
NIFTY 50 MUMBAI dent from the fact that share
PRICE CHANGE Sun Pharmaceutical Indus holders value has been dras
Adani Ports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 399.30. . . . . . . . . 4.80
Asian Paints. . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . 1400.45. . . . . . . 10.85
tries Ltd.’s shares on Friday tically eroded within a short
Axis Bank . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 664.60. . . . . . -12.05 plunged to a nearly sixyear span of time due to unsub
Bajaj Auto . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2720.75. . . . . . . . -8.90 low to ₹ 375.40, down 12.12%, stantiated complaint/allega
Bajaj Finserv. . . . . . . . . . .. . . . 6249.90. . . -109.10
following fresh allegations of tion against the company
Bajaj Finance . . . . . . . . . .. . . . 2542.90. . . . . . . . . 7.00
Bharti Airtel . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . 311.15. . . . . . -20.90 corporate governance norms and mala fi de campaign
BPCL. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 354.20. . . . . . . . -1.00 violation. launched by certain media
Cipla . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 509.40. . . . . . . . -0.20 Shares of the pharma ma houses,” the letter added.
Coal India . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 230.00. . . . . . . . -2.05
Dr Reddys Lab . . . . . . . .. . . . 2596.80. . . . . . -22.35
Eicher Motors. . . . . . . . .. 20122.75. . . -247.20
GAIL (India). . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . 322.15. . . . . . -10.25
Grasim Ind . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 824.95. . . . . . . . -3.15
jor declined 8.52% to close at
390.75 on the BSE on Friday.
A magazine had reported
privy to,” Sun Pharma said in
the letter.
“In these circumstances,
Sun Pharma has request
ed SEBI “to examine the mat
ter in its entirety and the role
BFSI buoys Wipro’s
HCL Tech. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 966.30. . . . . . . 11.60
HDFC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2006.85. . . . . . . . . 2.30
HDFC Bank. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2130.25. . . . . . . . -2.05
about a second whistleblow
er fi ling a complaint with SE
BI against Sun Pharma’s pro
there is great asymmetry in
the information circulating
between analysts, investors
of some media houses and
other stakeholders.”
A fi rst whistleblower had
profi t, net rises 30%
Hero MotoCorp . . . . . .. . . . 2898.75. . . . . . . . -4.85
Hindalco . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208.80. . . . . . . . . 2.80
moters, seeking to probe Bitter pill: Sun Pharma has asked SEBI to examine the matter and media leading to intense fi led a complaint alleging
HPCL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239.50. . . . . . . . -4.70 certain transactions. in its entirety, besides the role of some media houses. AFP *
speculation. The availability wrong doing by the compa Firm announces 1:3 bonus issue
Hind Unilever . . . . . . . . .. . . . 1744.10. . . . . . . . -7.40 of information contained in ny and its promoters, with
Indiabulls HFL . . . . . . . .. . . . . . 817.35. . . . . . . . . 0.60
ICICI Bank . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 372.00. . . . . . . . -2.60
₹ 5,800cr. transactions brotherinlaw of Sun Phar letter to SEBI chairman Ajay the whistleblower docu SEBI in November last year. Special Correspondent prise modernisation and
IndusInd Bank . . . . . . . .. . . . 1516.90. . . . . . . . -6.10 The report claimed that Adi ma promoter and managing Tyagi, informed that it had ments to a set of selective in The company had denied Bengaluru digital transformation have
Bharti Infratel . . . . . . . .. . . . . . 278.05. . . . . . . . -2.40 tya Medisales Ltd., a key dis director Dilip Shanghvi. learnt about the complaint vestors does put other inves the allegation. Wipro’s thirdquarter net enabled us to deliver a very
Infosys . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 730.95. . . . . . . . -2.40 tributor of Sun Pharma pro The contents of the re from media reports. tors, including retail “We have received a whis profi t rose 30% to ₹ 2,510.4 satisfying quarter,” said Abi
Indian OilCorp . . . . . . . .. . . . . . 137.85. . . . . . . . . 0.20
ITC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 291.45. . . . . . . . -2.50 ducts, had conducted ported complaint could not “The said whistleblower investors in a disadvantage tleblower complaint against crore yearonyear as its re dali Neemuchwala, CEO and
JSW Steel. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 285.60. . . . . . . . -3.40 transactions worth ₹ 5,800 be verifi ed as the document documents and other confi ous position,” the letter said. Sun Pharma. venue from banking, fi nan executive director.
Kotak Bank . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1240.20. . . . . . . 20.25 crore with Suraksha Realty, a is not on public domain and dential emails are being of “We are concerned that At this point, all I would cial services and insurance “Technology had a muted
L&T . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1317.90. . . . . . -28.15
M&M . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 734.95. . . . . . . . . 0.30
company owned by Sun SEBI offi cials declined to fered for inspection to insti certain entities/individuals like to say is that we are exa (BFSI) increased by 24.7%. impacted by furloughs, but
Maurti Suzuki . . . . . . . . .. . . . 7357.95. . . . . . . 21.70 Pharma executive director comment. As speculation tutional investors by one are adopting unfair trade mining the allegations of the India’s third largest soft the outlook remains stable.
NTPC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144.30. . . . . . . . -0.60 Sudhir Valia, between 2014 mounted and shares media house as per the re practice prejudicial to the in whistleblower,” Mr. Tyagi ware exporter’s revenue The demand environment
ONGC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146.75. . . . . . . . . 1.75
PowerGrid Corp . . . . .. . . . . . 193.60. . . . . . . . -0.30
and 2017. Mr. Valia is also the plunged, Sun Pharma, in a port, which again, we are not terest of shareholders and had said in December. rose 10.17% to ₹ 15,059.50 in the global markets is sta
Reliance Ind . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . 1184.35. . . . . . . 49.90 crore during the quarter ble.
State Bank . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 294.95. . . . . . . . -2.45 compared to the same pe “We do not see any im
Infl ation volatility is a challenge, says RBI Governor
Sun Pharma . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . 390.75. . . . . . -35.80
Tata Motors . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . 183.30. . . . . . . . -1.60
riod a year earlier, accord mediate impact of the ma
Tata Steel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 470.65. . . . . . . . -2.50 ing to a company statement. cro headwind that some of
TCS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1900.65. . . . . . . . . 6.35 Revenue from BFSI sector the large economies have
Tech Mahindra . . . . . . .. . . . . . 709.15. . . . . . . . . 3.60 rose to ₹ 4,597.90 crore com cautioned. But we continue
Titan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 960.95. . . . . . . . -0.60
UltraTech Cement . .. . . . 3819.95. . . . . . -26.50 Policy action is required on corporate governance in banks, cyber risk a major challenge: Das pared to ₹ 3,684.90 crore a to remain watchful.
UPL. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 766.05. . . . . . . . -3.00 year earlier. “The traction in the U.S
Vedanta . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198.70. . . . . . . . . 1.25 SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT in food, fuel, and infl ation comes. Mr.Das also spoke March 2018. and the Asia Pacifi c and oth
Wipro . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 346.15. . . . . . . 10.75
YES Bank. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198.60. . . . . . . . -2.90
Mumbai excluding food and fuel — are about challenges that Indian The Governor, however, Interim dividend er emerging markets re
Zee Entertainment . . . . . . 440.30. . . . . . . . -0.60 Amid a growing demand for exhibiting wide divergences fi rms may face due to deve pointed out that the area The company declared an mains healthy and the
a reduction in interest rate in this year,” Mr. Das said in his lopments around Brexit. where policy action is re interim dividend of ₹ 1 growth in the quarter is
the upcoming monetary pol fi rst speech after taking On the banking sector, the quired is corporate gover ($0.011 ) per equity share/ across the industry seg
EXCHANGE RATES icy review scheduled for Fe charge in December. Governor reiterated the cen nance in banks with a focus ADS and the board of direc ments. India is likely to re
Indicative direct rates in rupees a unit
except yen at 4 p.m. on January 18 bruary 7, Reserve Bank of In “While food infl ation has tral bank’s fi nancial stability on transparency and ac tors recommended issue of main volatile,” he said.
CURRENCY TT BUY TT SELL dia (RBI) Governor turned negative since Octob report assessment that gross countability. He also de bonus shares to sharehol Jatin Dalal, chief fi nancial
US Dollar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . 70.98. . . . . . . 71.30 Shaktikanta Das said wide di er 2018 and fuel infl ation has NPA ratio of the banks could scribed cyber risk as a major ders (including stock divi offi cer, said: “Relentless fo
Euro . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . 80.94. . . . . . . 81.30 vergences and volatility in in been highly volatile, infl a further come down to 10.3% challenge. dend to ADS holders) in the cus on the quality of reve
British Pound . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . 91.83. . . . . . . 92.25
Japanese Yen (100) . .. . 64.85. . . . . . . 65.14 fl ation pose challenges for its tion, excluding food and in March 2019 compared Without mentioning the ratio of 1:3 viz. one equity nues and operational im
Chinese Yuan . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . 10.47. . . . . . . 10.52 assessment. fuel, remains sticky at close with 10.8% in September IL&FS crisis, the Governor share for every three equity provements have led to the
Swiss Franc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . 71.42. . . . . . . 71.74 The case for a rate cut has to 6%,” he said adding such Shaktikanta Das 2018. said the debt default of ‘a sys
Singapore Dollar . . . . . . .. . 52.34. . . . . . . 52.58
shares held. expansion of IT services op
Canadian Dollar . . . . . . . . .. . 53.53. . . . . . . 53.77 been cited by economists ‘wide divergences and large “It will remain critical to temically important NBFC’ The company expects re erating margins to 19.8%.”
Malaysian Ringitt . . . . . .. . 17.25. . . . . . . 17.34 and industry lobbies on the volatilities’ pose challenges data,” he said in his speech at ensure that further slippages had highlighted the vulnera venue from IT services busi Digital revenue increased
Source:Indian Bank back of a sharp fall in retail for infl ation assessment the Vibrant Gujarat Summit. are contained,” he said. bility and need for streng ness in the next quarter by 6.4% quarteronquarter
infl ation in recent months Observing maintaining He also said banks had im thening regulatory vigil on ending March 31 to be in the and currently accounts for
with the latest data showing Careful analysis of data price stability in the econo proved their profi tability ra the sector and on asset liabil range of $2.04billion to 33.2% of total revenue. The
BULLION RATES CHENNAI
December CPI infl ation at “Balancing the objectives of my was a basic mandate for a tios and capital positions and ity management (ALM) fra $2.08billion. company added one ac
January 18 rates in rupees with pre-
vious rates in parentheses 2.2%. “Although headline in infl ation and growth under a central bank, the Governor also the provision coverage mework in particular. He “Our strategic invest count to its $100 million
Retail Silver (1g) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42.5. . . . . . . (42.9)
fl ation has moderated signifi fl exible infl ation targeting acknowledged that easing of ratio which increased to said the RBI intends to ments, backed by strong plus revenue clients’ list and
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52.4% in endSeptember strengthen the ALM frame client relationships and another seven to its $20 mil
jor components — infl ation careful analysis of every new gured well for infl ation out 2018 from 48.3% in end work for NBFCs. client spends towards enter lion bucket.
RIL to demerge tower and fi bre arms,
transfer ₹ 65,000 crore of Jio’s liabilities
With a debt of over ₹ 2.74 lakh crore, company prepares to deleverage
Piyush Pandey Credit Suisse said in its re
Mumbai port after the results.
Reliance Industries Limited Reliance Jio’s total liabili
(RIL), having outstanding ties stood at ₹ 1,84,915 crore
debt of ₹ 2,74,381 crore ($39.3 compared with the total as
billion) as on December 31, sets of ₹ 1,04,231 crore as on
2018, is looking to delever September 30, 2018.
age by transferring ₹ 65,000 According to CLSA “Re
crore worth liabilities of its liance may fully sellout and
telecom arm Reliance Jio to get into a sale and leaseback
its tower and fi bre arms transaction for Jio’s tower
which are proposed to be and fi bre following the re
demerged. cently announced demerger.
The development comes Shedding baggage: RIL will monetise its tower, fi bre assets “As a big chunk of Jio’s
even as its ₹ 25,000crore after demerger by selling stakes in them. RAMESH SHARMA
* $40 billion investment has
tower deal with Reliance gone into building this in
Communications (RCom) is ital Fibre Ltd. respectively, of the development told The frastructure, we suspect this
on hold after the Depart and has entered into arran Hindu. Shareholders and transaction, likely in 1HCY19,
ment of Telecommunica gements for longterm unin creditors of Reliance Jio will is to reduce a large portion
tions (DoT) refused to give terrupted use of these assets. meet on February 18 to ap of Jio’s $25 billion in liabili
approval to the deal as Re The company plans to prove the demerger of the ties as it is sold with these
liance Jio refused to take lia monetise its tower assets tower and optic fi bre net companies. Incremental
bility for the previous dues and optic fi bre network after work. fi bre and mobile capex will
of RCom. the demerger by selling “Company intends to hive also be done by these enti
stakes in them. off tower and fi bre assets and ties, with Jio paying leases
Longterm use of assets As per the terms of the get outside investors in, so as and maintaining an asset
Reliance Jio Infocomm Ltd., deal, preference shares to reduce overall debt levels. light balance sheet,” said the
the telecom arm of RIL, has worth ₹ 65,000 crore of Re We believe this eff ectively CLSA report.
decided to demerge its pas liance Jio will be cancelled punctures hopes of tariff in RIL’s shares on the BSE
sive tower and optic fi bre and converted into debt in creases for other telcos [as rose 4.34% to close at
network into Reliance Jio In the books of resulting com was argued by some bulls]. ₹ 1,182.95 in a fl at Mumbai
fratel Private Ltd. and Jio Dig panies, a source in the know We stay cautious on telcos,” market on Friday.
Britannia keen to invest in Bengal L&T Infotech
net rises 32.8%
Firm to invest about ₹ 350 crore, State govt. to allot land to ₹ 375.5 crore
Special Correspondent discussions following due nia’s eff orts to become a
KOLKATA protocol have taken place. total foods company. In the Special Correspondent
Britannia Industries Ltd. is The investment proposal is dairy segment, it has lined MUMBAI
12 BUSINESS DELHI
IN BRIEF
‘Let Indians have control of their data’
RIL chairman Mukesh Ambani fl ags concerns about increasing data colonisation by global corporates
special correspondent data back to India — in other from them.
GANDHINAGAR words, Indian wealth back to It may be noted that the
Flagging concerns about in every Indian.” Indian government wants
creasing data colonisation by Calling the Prime Minister companies doing business in
global corporations, Re a ‘man of action’, Mr. Amba India to store all customer
liance Industries chairman ni urged him to make the data locally, a demand some
Toyota unveils new Mukesh Ambani on Friday movement against data colo global corporations are not
Camry hybrid vehicle urged Prime Minister Naren nisation one of the principal inclined to comply with.
MUMBAI dra Modi to take steps goals of the Digital India Besides the Centre, the Time for business: Our focus is on less government and
Toyota Kirloskar Motor Ltd. against the way some global mission. Reserve Bank of India (RBI), more governance, said Narendra Modi. VIJAY SONEJI *
CM A ND-NDE
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Allround India pulls off another fi rst down under
After Chahal’s sixfor sets the ball rolling, Dhoni’s wellpaced 87 and Jadhav’s timely fi fty hand the visitors series triumph
114 balls was a testimony to Jadhav then soothed In turion in January, 2018.
OZ CHALLENGE his highquality match dian nerves as he scored his
awareness as the street fourth ODI halfcentury off Fighter Handscomb
Press Trust of India
Melbourne
smart Kedar Jadhav (61 n.o., 52 balls, as the equation For Australia, Peter Hand
57b) donned the role of came down to 14 needed off scomb (58) scored a fi ghting
Mahendra Singh Dhoni re fi nisher. 12. He struck two fours in the halfcentury and took it to a
kindled his love aff air with fi The former India skipper’s penultimate over off Peter respectable total after being
nal fl ourishes, anchoring In role going into the business Siddle. reduced to 161 for six.
dia to its maiden bilateral end of his illustrious career is Earlier, Yuzvendra Chahal Play was delayed by 10 mi
OneDay International series that of an anchor, who takes picked up six for 42 as Aus nutes because of rain and af
triumph in Australia for a the game deep. He per tralia was bowled out for ter the fi rst two balls in the
perfect fi nish to a historic formed his role to perfection 230. Australian innings there was
trip down under here on with world class exhibition of Chahal recorded the joint a further 20minute delay be
Friday. running between the wickets bestever ODI fi gures on Aus fore weather improved.
India became the fi rst in what could well be his last tralian soil (Ajit Agarkar six The hosts faltered under
country to return from Aus match on Australian soil. for 42, 2004). cloudy skies though as Bhuv
tralia without losing a single Not to forget the Manof He also improved on his neshwar Kumar and Mo
series, having won the Test theSeries award for a hat previous best of fi ve for 22 hammed Shami bowled ex
series 21 and drawn the trick of halfcenturies, two against South Africa at Cen cellent opening spells.
Twenty20 Internationals 11. coming in winning causes.
Though Dhoni was lucky SCOREBOARD AUSTRALIA VS INDIA, THIRD ODI
Dhoni 3.0 to be dropped on 0 and 74,
From a dasher, to a fi nisher the Australian bowling never Australia: Alex Carey c Kohli b Shankar 60230, Jadhav 60
to fi nally the anchor in the had the sting to unsettle the Bhuvneshwar 5 (11b, 1x4), Aaron 350, Jadeja 90530, Chahal
last leg of his career, ‘Dhoni Indian batsmen despite skip Finch lbw b Bhuvneshwar 14 100426.
3.0’ was in full fl ow during per Virat Kohli (46) being dis (24b, 1x4), Usman Khawaja c & b India: Rohit Sharma c S. Marsh b
Chahal 34 (51b, 2x4), Shaun Siddle 9 (17b, 1x4), Shikhar
India’s successful chase of missed with more than 100
Marsh st Dhoni b Chahal 39 Dhawan c & b Stoinis 23 (46b),
231 on a sluggish Melbourne runs left. (54b, 3x4), Peter Handscomb
pitch after Yuzvendra Chahal Virat Kohli c Carey b Richardson
lbw b Chahal 58 (63b, 2x4), 46 (62b, 3x4), M.S. Dhoni (not
set it up with a careerbest Slow start Marcus Stoinis c Rohit b Chahal out) 87 (114b, 6x4), Kedar
six for 42. India got off to a slow start as 10 (20b, 1x4), Glenn Maxwell c Jadhav (not out) 61 (57b, 7x4);
“It wasn’t an easy wicket well. Australia created some Bhuvneshwar b Shami 26 (19b, Extras (lb1, w7): 8; Total (for
to bat on, so it was important good pressure with the new 5x4), Jhye Richardson c Jadhav three wkts. in 49.2 overs): 234.
to take the game deep,” said ball, in particular Jhye Ri b Chahal 16 (23b, 1x4), Adam
Zampa c Vijay Shankar b Chahal Fall of wickets: 115 (Rohit, 5.6),
India skipper Virat Kohli at chardson, who tied down Ro
8 (14b), Peter Siddle (not out) 259 (Dhawan, 16.2), 3113
the postmatch presentation. hit Sharma. (Kohli, 29.6).
10 (11b, 1x4), Billy Stanlake b
“Two set batsmen there It worked as the right
Shami 0 (2b); Extras (lb2, w8): Australia bowling: Richardson
who knew what to do and handed opener was caught 10; Total (in 48.4 overs): 230. 101271, Siddle 91561, Stan
they got the job done. We’ve at slip in the sixth over. Des lake 100490, Maxwell 10
Fall of wickets: 18 (Carey, 2.5
been here a long time, it’s pite Kohli coming to the 70, Zampa 100340, Stoinis
overs), 227 (Finch, 8.6), 3100
been an amazing tour. We crease thereafter, India (Marsh, 23.1), 4101 (Khawaja, 9.20601.
drew the T20 series, won the struggled in the fi rst Power New avatar: M.S. Dhoni, who played the anchor to perfection, showed why he used to be known as ‘Captain Cool’. *
AFP 23.4), 5123 (Stoinis, 29.3), 6 Toss: India.
Test series and now the ODIs. Play and only scored 26 for 161 (Maxwell, 34.5), 7206
If you had given me these re one in the fi rst 10 overs. usual thanks to some tight dropped Kohli (on 10) at fi rst catch to Marcus Stoinis in the (121 runs) partnership then Man-of-the-Match: Chahal.
(Richardson, 43.3), 8219
sults before the tour, I would Kohli added 44 runs with bowling and fi elding by slip off Billy Stanlake in the 17th over. took some time to get going. (Handscomb, 45.6), 9228 Man-of-the-Series: M.S. Dhoni.
have gladly taken it,” he ad Shikhar Dhawan (23) for the Australia. 12th over. But things turned Kohli and Dhoni added 54 In the meantime, Dhoni (Zampa, 47.4). India won the match by seven
ded. second wicket, but it was a The duo tried to cut loose, around for Australia when runs off 82 balls for the third reached his 70th ODI half India bowling: Bhuvneshwar 8 wickets with four balls to spare,
Dhoni’s unbeaten 87 off slower partnership than as Peter Handscomb Dhawan lobbed a return wicket. The DhoniJadhav century off 74 balls. 1282, Shami 9.40472, Vijay and the series 2-1.
times” but not Mahendra can’t. Such players only Dhoni, who generally bats at stars, the future stars
Singh Dhoni, “aoncein40 come once in 30 or 40 number six, anchored In and the tireless silent other sports that come under Games and World Cups.
the ambit of the multi Anju Bobby George: The
years player” who will be years. That is what I tell the dia’s chase with a 114ball 87 partners who have
discipline Olympic arena and country’s greatest long
very diffi cult to replace once Indians. Enjoy while it lasts. not out which was studded dedicated their lives to appeals to a vast majority of jumper, she is the only Indian
he bids adieu to the game, When he goes you will see a with six boundaries. sports, to realise the dream the Indian populace. to have won a senior World
according to the head coach void that will be very hard to “I am happy to bat at any of making India a ‘Sporting M.M. Somaya: A member of Championships medal in
of India. fi ll,” he said. number. The important Nation’. the Olympic goldmedal athletics, a bronze at the
The 37yearold Dhoni, It’s not just Dhoni’s role thing is where the team Weaving magic: Yuzvendra Chahal had the Australian The Popular Awards, winning hockey team in 2003 Paris event. She also
who was panned by critics as a batsman that defi nes needs me,” said Dhoni, when batsmen in a bind. AFP *
which were put to vote on Moscow (1980) and skipper won the gold at the 2005
for his 51 off 96 balls in the him but the master strate asked where he wants to bat. our website, and other of the Indian team at Seoul IAAF World Athletics Finals.
fi rst ODI against Australia, gist in him that takes a lot of “Whether I play at four or bowling well, so we wanted done,” he said. awards will be presented to (1988), he also took part in N. Ram: The Chairman of the
showed glimpses of his gol load off skipper Kohli’s six, we need to see if the to take it deep and that was “Kedar with bat and ball is an elite panel of jury two World Cups, two Asian The Hindu Group Publishing,
den days by anchoring India shoulders. “That is because team balance can be re the plan. always handy. Kuldeep had comprising Sunil Gavaskar, Games and three Champions and a former EditorinChief
to a series win with unbea he has the best angle. He tained. I can’t say I can’t bat “Of course, supported played a few games, so you Trophies among other major and Publisher of The Hindu
M.M. Somaya, Anju Bobby
tournaments. Group of publications, Ram is
ten knocks of 55 and 87 in sees things. He is great with at No. 6 after playing 14 brilliantly by Kedar, who don’t want to make things George, Anjali Bhagwat
Anjali Bhagwat: An expert in a respected political
the next two. the guys, they all worship years,” he said after the plays unorthodox shots. He too predictable. and N. Ram to make the
the 10m Air Rifl e and Rifl e 3 journalist. A keen follower of
“He is a legend. He will go him. This entire team has match. did a great job.” “So we brought on Yuz fi nal choice. Position shooting events, she sports, he played one First
down as one of our great been built by him because Asked what the gameplan India captain Virat Kohli vendra Chahal, and he A short profi le of the jury has won a mindboggling 31 Class match for Madras as its
cricketers. he was captain for 10 years. had been, Dhoni said: “It was was all praise for the team. played beautifully. It’s been members gold medals, 23 silver wicketkeeper in the Ranji
“I have never seen an in To have that kind of respect a slow wicket, so it was diffi “It wasn’t a great wicket to an amazing tour for us. We Sunil Gavaskar: The former medals and seven bronze Trophy. He has also reported
dividual so sound. I have in the dressing room and ex cult to hit whenever you bat on, so we had to take it are feeling confi dent and ba India captain and cricketing medals in various on Test matches for The
seen Sachin at times get an perience is massive,” said wanted to. No point going af deep, but they were profes lanced as a side with the legend, whose punditry is international meets such as Hindu briefl y in the 1970s.
gry. Not this man,” Shastri Shastri. ter the bowlers who were sional in getting the job World Cup in mind,” he said.
14 SPORT DELHI
Serving well
Troubled only by noisy chil
Under17: Final: Dev Javia bt
Aryaan Bhatia 75, 63.
Doubles: Third place: Ajay Ma
Kattimani a step away from triumph
dren in the stands, Mahak lik & Nitin Singh bt Aman Dahi overcame a challenge from Pune fi gher Devika Ghor
served accurately and ya & Udit Gogoi 63, 36,
BOXING Manipur’s Kongkham Naoth pade defeatedHaryana’s Rin
stroked with conviction to [107]. Sports Bureau oi Singh in the boys’ U21 ku in the girls U17 46kg cate
make the contest onesided. Family time: Mahak Jain with father Vijay and mother Rashmi after her triumph. Women: Under21: Final: Ma PUNE 52kg class. In the 60kg bout, gory, winning 32.
“I didn’t start so well, but * KAMESH SRINIVASAN hak Jain bt Mihika Yadav 64, World Youth bronze medal the latter knocked out Rahul Manipur’s Tingmila Doun
got my rhythm and played 61. ist Bhavesh Kattimani (Mah Mamgai (UP) 41. gel will take on Ekta (Punjab)
better. The children were Marathi, which worked like Jodhpur, scheduled a week and Nitin Kumar Sinha 106 Doubles: Third place: Kaavya arashtra) and Asian Cham Kattimani and Narwal will in the 48kg fi nal after the lat
Balasubramanian & Sai Avanthi
disturbing, as they were talk magic, as the stands fell later, before the Fed Cup in in the super tiebreak. pionship bronze medal face off against Anwar (Kar ter scored an unanimous
ka bt Sai Dedeepya & Aditi Are
ing all the time,” said Mahak, silent. Kazakhstan, early in The gold medal won for winner Ankit Narwal (Harya nataka) and Harivansh Tiwa points verdict over Sangeeta
60, 36, [107].
who repeatedly requested “It feels great to win this February. Maharashtra, could serve as Under17: Third place: Gargi
na) secured fi nal berths in ri (Maharashtra) for the gold. (Haryana).
the umpire to calm them tournament. I look forward In the men’s under21 dou the right tonic for Dhruv be Pawar bt Lakshmi Reddy 63, their respective weight class In the girls’ U17 70kg ca Pranjal and Devika will
down. to other tournaments,” said bles fi nal, Armaan Bhatia fore his singles fi nal against 63. es at KIYG boxing competi tegory, Hissar girl Pranjal Ya fi ght Arundhati Choudhary
The umpire Leena Na Mahak, who may get a wild and Dhruv Sunish played an Manish Sureshkumar on Doubles: Final: Prerna Vichare tion. dav stunned 2018 Nations (Rajasthan) and Haryana's
geshkar took the mike at one card entry in the $25,000 energetic and entertaining Saturday. & Gargi Pawar bt Sai Bhoyar & The former, from the Ar Cup champion and state Tamanna respectively in the
stage to make the request in ITF women’s tournament in game to tame Ishaque Eqbal In the men’s under17 fi Hrudaya Shah 61, 61. my Sports Institute here, mate Raj Sahiba 32. title fi ght.
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over, 245: 1. Summer Dawn (1)
4 DR. C. VITTAL MEMORIAL
TROPHY (DIV. I), (1,200m),
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Akram 58.5, 3. Haedi’s Folly (7)
BENEDICTION
Day’s best: ANGELS KISS
Spanish duo’s double strikes sink Aizawl FC rated 30 to 50, 345: 1. Angels Kiss Sandesh 57.5, 4. Mint (10) M. Double: KINGOFHEARTS — DIA-
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Chennai City made to dig deep to unsettle the visitor
Raees strikes it rich in feature
Rayan Rozario
Coimbatore
fi rst half, got into the thick of
things. They kept harassing Baroda
Spaniards Sandro Rodriguez
and Pedro Manzi struck a
the Aizawl defence and it
paid off in the 60th minute. MUMBAI: Imtiaz Saittrained Raees,
ridden by Robbie Downey, claimed
2, 21/2, 3/4. 2m, 5.25s. ₹ 12 (w), 11 and
19 (p). SHP: 29, FP: 37, Q: 16, Tanala: 6 FERRARI PLATE (1,200m), Cl. III,
rated 40 to 66: KANEEZ (Ajinkya)
shocks
double each as Chennai City
FC scored a 43 win over Ai
Manzi, the league’s top
scorer, came up with a stun
the Byculla Club Trophy, the main
event of Friday’s ( Jan. 18) evening
92 and 30. Favourite: Emotionless.
Owners: Mr. Jaydev M. Mody rep. J.M.
1, Albareto (Parmar) 2, Take Five
(Yash) 3 and Untitled (Nadeem) 4. Kerala
zawl FC in the Hero ILeague races. The winner is owned by Mr. & Livestock Pvt. Ltd. Trainer: Nosher Not run: Checkmate. 31/2, 13/4, 3/4.
ning shot from a 40yard Mrs. Hoosain S. Nensey & Mr. Saif H. Cama. 1m, 11.65s. ₹ 33 (w), 16, 27 and 28 (p).
clash at the Nehru Stadium range for which the Aizawl Nensey. SHP: 66, FP: 328, Q: 87, Tanala: 1,657 Special Correspondent
RAJPIPLA TROPHY (1,400m), Cl.
here on Friday.
It wasn’t easy at the start
custodian had no answer.
Sandro put the team further 1 BYCULLA CLUB TROPHY (2,800m),
4yo & over: RAEES (R. Downey) 1,
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BRAVA (Trevor) 1, Celtic Prince (Nazil)
and 888. Favourite: Kaneez. Owners:
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Kochi
Defending National cham
Frivolous (Chouhan) 2 and Vulcan Adamji Peerbhoy, Balkrishna R.
for the host. It had to dig ahead converting a direct 2, Congressional (Santosh) 3 and Agarwal, Pramod Gajanan Churi & pion Kerala suff ered a
(Trevor) 3. Not run: Smasher. 53/4, Forest Fairy (Kaviraj) 4. 71/2, Nk, 3/4.
deep to unsettle the visitor, free kick in the 69th minute. Nose. 3m, 4.44s. ₹ 19 (w), SHP: 26, FP: 1m, 23.27s. ₹ 11 (w), 11 and 58 (p). SHP:
Ajay K. Arora. Trainer: S.K. Sunderji. shocking eightwicket loss
which showed great fi ghting Chennai City made the
95. Favourite: Vulcan. Owners: Mr. & 121, FP: 384, Q: 207, Tanala: 463 and NOTE: Soon after the start, The Civil against Baroda in a Group
Mrs. Hoosain S. Nensey & Mr. Saif H. ian stumbled and dislodged jockey
spirit. Aizawl was not carried Sterling show: Sandro Rodriguez, who scored a brace for night even more memorable
174. Favourite; Costa Brava. Owners:
Akshay, who later was taken to the
A league match of the Na
Nensey. Trainer: Imtiaz Sait. Mr. Pallon S. Mistry rep. Manjri Horse
away by the quality and Chennai City FC, evades an Aizawl FC defender. M. PERIASAMY *
with Manzi scoring another. Breeders’ Farm Pvt. Ltd., Mr. Me hospital. tional under23 women’s
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tor’s magical pass that saw (Parmar) 2, Taarradhin (Trevor) 3 COMMAND (Nazil) 1, Ebony (Peter) 2,
The fi rst half saw both mered it wide. It was a gol connecting a Jaryan pass in MAGIC TOUCH PLATE (1,000m), day.
teams struggling a bit to den chance that went down to the net much to the joy of
the striker fi nding the back
of the net. Just when it
and Walk The Talk (R. Downey) 4. 2
3/4, Lnk, 31/2. 1m, 25.79s. ₹ 31 (w), 14
5 Cl. IV, rated 20 to 46: SHARAREH
(Bhawani) 1, Julio Cesaro (Kaviraj) 2,
Isinit ( Joseph) 3 and Antarctica (S.
Amit) 4. 3/4, 31/2, 21/2. 1m, 13.12s. The scores (Group A,
create chances but Chennai the drain. the team. It was obviously and 21 (p). SHP: 41, FP: 111, Q: 77, Highland Empress (Chouhan) 3 and ₹ 12 (w), 12, 17 and 24 (p). SHP: 33, FP: league):
looked all over, Aizawl Tanala: 201 and 86. Favourite: Taar 38, Q: 37, Tanala: 224 and 122. Fa Meghalaya 27 for eight in
City quickly settled into the Even as Aizawl was curs pleased with its fi rst half Divine Empress (Kuldeep) 4. 1, 11/4,
scored surprisingly twice in radhin. Owners: Mr. Akhtar Adamji 21/4. 59.79s. ₹ 62 (w), 20, 37 and 23 vourite: Officer In Command. Own 20 overs lost to Punjab 28 for
groove and came close to ing its luck, Chennai City re eff ort. the space of two minutes. Peerbhoy, Ms Saba A. Peerbhoy, M/s. (p). SHP: 109, FP: 1,904, Q: 437, ers: Mr.Maloji Bhosale, Mrs. Ra
Pramod Gajanan Churi, Balkrishna jalaxmi M. Bhosale, M/s. Jiyaji no loss in 7 overs.
scoring on a couple of occa plied in a fi tting fashion The second session saw But before any further dam Tanala: 8,597 and 2,211. Favourite:
R. Agarwal & Ajay K. Arora. Trainer: Fundamental Right. Owners: M/s. Bhosale, Rishikesh Bhosale & Kr Kerala 58 in 19.2 overs lost
sions. Aizawl replied in a si through Sandro. The midfi el Chennai City in an attacking age came the fi nal whistle. S.K. Sunderji. Digvijay Singh Shekhawat rep. Jai to Baroda 60 for two in 13.1
Vikram L. Kapadia, Shantanu
milar manner when Zikhai der from Spain cashed in on mood. The team has always Govind Stud & Agri Farms (PF).
Dodoz broke free in the 27th a welldirected feed from fared well during this period
The results: Chennai City FC 4
(Sandro Rodrigues 29 & 69, Pedro 3 MAHARASHTRA, GUJARAT & GOA
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Saleem Shah, Sunil Anand,
Trainer: Adhirajsingh Jodha.
Jackpot: 70%: ₹ 1,069 (361 tkts.) and
overs.
Manipur 21 in 12.5 overs
minute and had just Garcia Pravitto Raju to put the team in most of its matches. Manzi Manzi 60 & 80) bt Aizawl 3 (Al (Bhavna Rathore four for fi ve)
(Chouhan) 1, Jager Bomb (R. Harakchand C. Gandhi & Mirza 30%: 265 (23 tkts.). Treble: 606 (45
Santana, the Chennai custo on top. and Nestor Jesus, the Span bert 38, Vanlalruatfela 91, Lalk Downey) 2, Honourable Eyes (Zer Ahmed Busheri. Trainer: Rehanullah tkts.). Super jackpot: 70%: 1,919 (29 lost to Uttar Pradesh 22 for
dian, to beat. But the striker Aizawl responded nine ish duo, who played a quiet hawpuimawia 93). van) 3 and Reds Revenge (Parmar) 4. Khan. tkts.) and 30%: 662 (36 tkts.). no loss in 2.2 overs.
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Kerala’s amazing run to the Ranji semifi nals Karnataka in last four
K arnataka scripted a six
wicket win over Rajas
ha 629 in 184
overs (Sanjay
A potent pace duo, an all-rounder from Indore and an imaginative coach help make history than inside four days and Ramaswamy
advanced to the semifi nals 141, Wasim
P.K. Ajith Kumar victory, Samson provided vananthapuram, where Sax of the Ranji Trophy at Ben Jaff er 206,
KOZHIKODE that. Such courage, such sa ena’s off spin came in handy galuru on Friday. Akshay Wad
Two of the most fascinating crifi ce ought not go in vain. (he has 28 wickets). The scores: kar 98, Aditya
stories of this Ranji Trophy It did not. The Indoreborn allroun At Bengaluru: Rajasthan 224 & Sarwate 102).
season unfolded at Kerala’s der is also Kerala’s leading 222 lost to Karnataka 263 & At Lucknow: Uttar Pradesh
picturesque Wayanad Crick The biggest story rungetter, with 537 runs. Ba 185 for four in 47.5 overs (Ka 385 & 194 in 72.1 overs (Mo
et Stadium (Krishnagiri) over Kerala, which had set a tar by, opener P. Rahul and Vish run Nair 61 n.o., Manish Pandey hammad Saif 48, Dharmendra
the last couple of days. In get of 195, bowled Gujarat nu Vinod are the other main 87 n.o.). sinh Jadeja four for 53) vs Sau
golden sunlight on Wednes out for 81 to author the big scorers. At Nagpur: Uttarakhand 355 & rashtra 208 & 195 for two in 67
day evening, Sanju Samson gest story of the 85th edition But two of the most vital 152 for fi ve in 57.1 overs (Ka overs (Harvik Desai 83 batting,
came out to bat — at the fall of India’s premier domestic innings in Kerala’s campaign ranveer Kaushal 76) vs Vidarb Snell Patel 72).
of the ninth Kerala wicket. tournament. A State that has were played by Vinoop Ma
That stunned the fi elding no great cricket tradition to noharan and Sijomon Jo
side — Gujarat — and the
small number of spectators.
For, Kerala’s most accom
boast of and that used to be
the whipping boys of South
Zone for much of its Ranji
seph, both of who fancy
themselves more as spin
ners. Coach Dav Whatmore
Aravind fi nishes 37th
plished batsman’s ring fi nger
on his right hand had been
history dating back to 1957
58, is now one of the semifi
asked them to bat at the top
of the order in crunch situa in Dakar Rally
broken by leftarm seamer nalists. tions, and they delivered.
Arzan Nagwaswalla on the The win at Krishnagiri was With several master Sports Bureau
opening day, forcing him to fashioned by Kerala’s pacers. strokes like that, the veteran Lima
retire hurt on 17. He batted In Sandeep Warrier and Basil Australian coach has trans India’s K.P. Aravind fi nished
with one hand, survived nine Thampi, the team could formed this young team — a creditable 37th as the 2019
balls and helped Jalaj Saxena claim to have the best new which doesn’t include a sin Dakar Rally concluded in
add eight more runs. In a ball attack in the gle player who has played a Peru on Friday.
lowscoring match on a two competition. Test or an ODI — into a group The 33yearold from Kar
paced green top, even one The 72 wickets they have of men who believe they can nataka thus became the se
run could have proved taken, between them, sup beat anyone, anywhere. cond Indian to complete the
crucial. port that claim (they took Three former champions gruelling off road event, af
If Sachin Baby’s men eight each against Gujarat). — Delhi, Bengal and Gujarat ter C.S. Santosh. Aravind,
needed one more compell And Kerala played all its four — have already been felled by who represents the Sherco
Changing times: A State that used to be the whipping boys of South Zone for much of its Ranji ing reason to go all out for an home matches on the turn them. They are hungry for TVS Rally Factory Team,
history, is now one of the semifi nalists. PTI * unprecedented quarterfi nal ing track at Thumpa, Thiru more. had competed in the Dakar
twice before but had
crashed out on both
BPXI victory Says coaches are important for kids when they are starting
as I have been dreaming and
waiting for this moment for
Sports Bureau three years now,” he said af
Special Correspondent here on Friday. Singapore Kamesh Srinivasan bunch of players represent strong fundamentals be ter the end of the tenth and
Thiruvananthapuram The scores: It was a day of mixed for PUNE ing India in an under14 come part of their routine. fi nal stage in Lima.
Opener Ruturaj Gaikwad hit England Lions 255 for six in tunes for Ankita Raina who Radhika Tulpule Kanitkar event in France, Radhika “With better monitoring “With multiple injuries in
50 overs (Alex Davies 100,
a brilliant century but Board made the singles semifi won an ITF women’s dou said that she was open to the and better environment, not the run up, I always knew I
Sam Hain 31, Sam Billings 31,
President’s XI made heavy nals, but had to give a wal bles title with Sania Mirza in idea of coaching the national to forget super discipline had to push myself beyond K.P. Aravind.
Mayank Markande three for 41)
weather of a comfortable lost to Board President’s XI kover in doubles, in the Manila in 2002. Even though team at higher levels, includ and dedication, we can hope the comfort zone to fi nish
chase and scraped to a four 256 for six in 49.2 overs (Rutu $25,000 ITF women’s ten she did not progress in tan ing the Fed Cup team, at our girls reach the next le the rally. Metge fi nishing 22nd and
wicket win, in the last over, raj Gaikwad 110, Ricky Bhui 93 nis tournament in Singa dem with Sania, Radhika — some stage in her career. vel,” she said. “The route this year was 25th respectively. Mean
against England Lions in the n.o., Ishan Kishan 36, Zak pore on Friday. who also won an ITF singles “We enjoyed playing the Radhika feels that there is extremely challenging but I while, Spaniard Oriol Mena,
oneday warm up match Chappell three for 53). titles — has made her identi game more than anything. a lot of talent and that it was ready to fi ght it out and representing the Hero Mo
Ankita led 75, 20
ty in a diff erent way. Now, even 10yearolds don’t needs direction. fi nish one stage at a time. torsports team, fi nished
against the second seed
A national champion at seem to enjoy the game. “Learn to enjoy the game Dreams do come true if you ninth.
and doubles partner Sabi
Saina advances na Sharipova of Uzbekis
tan, when the latter retired
every level from under14 to
women, in singles and dou
bles, Radhika is now contri
That is scary. They are most
ly mechanical, and there is
not much thought in their
and competition from a
young age to stay in the
game for life. You play the
truly believe in them.”
Aravind was the only In
dian left in the race with
Australia’s Toby Price,
riding for the Red Bull KTM
Factory Team, won the bike
who took the court with an owing to an injury.
buting as one of the best strokes. Players are not un game because you love it, Santosh having crashed out race to notch up his second
MALAYSIA MASTERS 84 headtohead record The results: qualifi ed women coaches in derstanding the basics,” said not for others,” added Rad earlier. Dakar title while Qatar’s
Press Trust of India against Okuhara, fought Doubles (quarterfi nals): Qui the country, as she shuttles Radhika. hika, as she underlined the It was a good outing for Nasser AlAttiyah (Toyota)
KUALA LUMPUR back from 915 and 1418 rine Lemoine & Arantxa Rus between two diff erent She insists that good key philosophy for happi the Sherco TVS team, with secured his third crown in
down in the two games to
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Saina Nehwal scripted a (Ned) w/o. Sabina Sharipova centres every day. coaches are important when ness and success in the riders Adrien and Michael the car category.
hardfought straightgame extend her dominance over (Uzb) & Ankita Raina. On her way to assist a kids start the game, so that sport.
win over former World the secondseeded Japanese
champion Nozomi Okuhara with a 2118, 2321 win in a
of Japan to enter the wo 48minute quarterfi nals at
men’s singles semifi nals but the Axiata Arena.
a fi ghting K. Srikanth The results (Quarterfi nals):
crashed out of the $350,000 Women: Saina Nehwal bt No
Malaysia Masters here on zomi Okuhara (Jpn) 2118, 23
Friday. 21. Men: Son Wan Ho (Kor) bt
Seventh seeded Saina, K. Srikanth 2123, 2116, 2117.
Pel and Baszak leading
names in ITF juniors
Special Correspondent
Kolkata
82nd ranked Sacchitt Sharr
ma of India, who withdrew
Stijn Pel of the Netherlands from the tournament ahead
will be leading the challenge of the qualifi ers, which start
in the boys’ singles section on Saturday.
of the ITF junior tennis, the The only Indian likely to
main draw matches of be getting a seeding will be
which comes up at the red Javia Dev in the boys’ singles
clay courts of DKS Complex with his ranking of 136. The
here from Monday. seedings will be fi nalised af
The grade2 event will see ter the qualifi ers on Sunday
a good number of junior but the presence of an In
players from among the dian name apart from Dev is
top100 ranking entering unlikely be there in fi nal list.
the fi eld. Pel will be leading The girls’ section will be
the boys’ seeding with his seeing Weronika Baszak of
current ranking of 69. Poland leading the pack
The boys’ fi eld would with her current ranking of
have been better but for the 86.
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18 LIFE DELHI
IN BRIEF
Age is no bar for live streaming India ranks third in research
Elderly people in China vie to make a name for themselves on social media papers on artifi cial intelligence
Agence France-Presse had Alzheimer’s disease,
Beijing
won millions of online fans New analysis tracks publications in peerreviewed journals
In public squares across Chi simply by answering ques
Pulitzer Prizewinning na, it is not unusual to see re tions from the public. Jacob Koshy in the AIspace in India and
poet Mary Oliver is dead tirees practising dance, tai New Delhi they were tended to collabo
NEW YORK chi, or even singing. Leaving a legacy India ranks third in the rate with each other. The In
Mary Oliver, a Pulitzer Prize Wang Jinxiang is no diff e In a rapidly ageing nation — world in terms of high quali dian Institutes of Technolo
winning poet whose work, rent — except that she live by 2050, one in three people ty research publications in gy and the Indian Institutes
with its plain language and streams her performances to in China, or 487 million peo artifi cial intelligence (AI) but of Information Technology
minute attention to the
an audience of thousands ple, will be over the age of is at a signifi cant distance were among the key centres
natural world, drew a wide
online. 60, according to the offi cial from world leader China, ac for AI research.
following while dividing
The 62yearold is among Xinhua news agency — the cording to an analysis by re The report authors inter
critics, died on Thursday at
her home in Florida State in
a legion of senior citizens Internet has become a sort search agency Itihaasa, viewed 25 AI researchers
the U.S. She was 83. She had trying to make a name for of fountain of youth for which was founded by Kris across the country, who said
been treated for lymphoma, themselves in China’s mas those who want their talents Gopalakrishnan, former or the number of times an that as of now “…there was
which was first diagnosed in sive social media scene, a Cheerful infl uencer: Wang Jinxiang performing as she streams immortalised. CEO and cofounder of article is referenced — India adequate support and fund
2015. NY TIMES world usually populated by it live over the Internet from her home in Beijing. AFP * Streaming may be an en Infosys. ranked only fi fth and trailed ing from the government
the young. joyable pastime for many, The agency computed the the United Kingdom, Cana and industry for AI re
Undeterred by the frosty lot of issues that were very Karaoke allows the elderly to but the Internet can still be a number of ‘citable docu da, the U.S. and China. “This search.”
winter, Ms. Wang put on a troublesome. I was not that exercise at home, sing better dark place, warned Wang ments’— the number of re suggests that India must Healthcare, fi nancial ser
show in a square by the good at handling the techni and show themselves on it.” Kelan, who live streams her search publications in peer work at improving the quali vices, monsoon forecasting,
Bird’s Nest stadium in Beij cal things on the smart “I’m constantly thinking song and dance performanc reviewed journals — in the ty of its research output in retail and education were
ing. “Which song do you phone,” she said. of new things to do everyday, es from the small city of Yun fi eld of AI between 2013 AI,” said Dayasindhu N., one the key fi elds likely to bene
want to listen next?” she Ms. Wang feels she has what new tricks I can do for cheng in Shanxi province. 2017 as listed out by Scima of the authors of the report fi t from AI and the fi eld was
asked her 23,000 followers found an outlet to express tomorrow to attract and en The 72yearold has en go, a compendium that ‘Landscape of AI/ML (Ma “unlikely to lead” to a des
as she delivered an hour herself and now spends two tertain everyone,” Ms. Wang dured cyberbullying from tracks trends in scientifi c re chine Learning) Research In truction of jobs — a key glo
Rihanna to launch her long special. hours every other day of the added. online followers who ridi search publications. India’. bal concern regarding the
own luxury fashion label week singing and perform As well as the usual beau cule her shows. Given India’s traditional fi eld.
PARIS
Love at fi rst sight ing live fashion shows. ty reviewers and aspiring co “Society is actually unfair China stands fi rst strength in information India’s national think
Pop idol Rihanna is preparing
She began this hobby after Fans send her virtual gifts medians, live streaming can to the elderly nowadays,” India, while third in the technology and AI said to tank, the NITI Ayog, last
to launch her own luxury
her nephew’s teacher that can later be redeemed bring about unlikely stars. said Wang Kelan. “They said world with 12,135 docu pose a transformation in in June released a discussion
brand with the world’s
showed her the online sing as cash of varying amounts — Last year, a corn farmer it was shameful to do live ments, trailed behind China dustry and academic circles, paper on the transformative
biggest fashion
conglomerate. The Barbados
ing platform Quan Min Ka China has a wealth of pay from a remote cliff top vil streaming at such an old with 37, 918 documents and the report was an attempt at potential of AI in India that
born superstar, who already raoke two years ago. Imme ment apps and social media lage became an online sensa age,” she confessed, though the United States with 32,421 mapping the state of AI said the country could add
has her own highly successful diately she fell in love. platforms that allow people tion by showcasing his daily she insisted that her love for documents. based research in India. $1 trillion to its economy
Fenty sportswear label, is in “When I fi rst started live to exchange money. activites and in 2017 an el the Internet outshines the However, when parsed by There were only about 50 through integrating AI into
talks with the French giant streaming, I was faced with a She explained: “Quan Min derly couple, one of whom toxic comments. another metric ‘citations’— to 75 principal researchers its economy.
LVMH, according to Women’s
Wear Daily. AFP
DD to start its own OTT platform Saturn’s rings are younger than thought
Plans to off er iconic shows from its huge library of content They developed in roughly the fi nal 2% of the planet’s current age, say scientists
Indo-Asian News Service Doordarshan are working on OTT platforms to take its Reuters collected by Cassini indicat Voyager spacecraft. Lower
New Delhi a project to evolve an online content to a larger audience. Washington ed they formed between 100 mass indicates a younger
Beyonce drops lawsuit
Doordarshan, India’s public platform for the viewers,” Launched in 1959, Door Saturn’s rings are one of our million and 10 million years age, the researchers said in a
over ‘Feyonce’ items
service broadcaster, is work said Supriya Sahu, Director darshan is known for creat solar system’s magnifi cent ago in roughly the fi nal 2% of study published in Science.
LOS ANGELES
A lawsuit brought by Beyonce
ing towards plans to launch General, Doordarshan. ing iconic shows like Hum sights, but may be a relative Saturn’s current age. Scientists suspect the
over the sale of “Feyonce” its own OTT (overthetop) “We have a huge library of Log, Buniyaad, Fauji, Bha- ly recent addition, according The fi ndings challenge the rings formed perhaps when
items to engaged couples has platform to stream content content. Some of our con rat Ek Khoj, Byomkesh to data obtained from NA notion favoured by some as Lord of the rings: A photo of a large icy comet or moon
been dismissed at the singer’s to viewers over the Internet. tent is iconic. People of India Bakshi, Chitrahaar, Shakti- SA’s Cassini spacecraft be tronomers that the rings de Saturn by Cassini spacecraft. ventured too close to Saturn
request. The pop superstar “OTT is an important plat associate themselves with maan, Dekh Bhai Dekh and fore the robotic explorer’s veloped soon after Saturn and was shattered by gravita
had complained in a 2016 form. Doordarshan is also our shows as they have Malgudi Days. Recently, 2017 death plunge into the formed about 4.5 billion crucial data like their mass tional forces or moons col
lawsuit that the shirts, planning to have its own dig grown up watching such streaming platforms such as giant gas planet. years ago along with the oth to estimate their age reliably. lided in orbit. Scientists
hoodies and other items sold ital platform where it can shows,” Ms. Sahu said. Netfl ix, Hotstar, Voot and Scientists said that a cal er planets, including the The ring mass turned out hope that they can, in the fu
to engaged couples by a put out its content which Her comment comes SonyLiv have signed an culation of the mass of the earth. to be 45% lower than pre ture, get samples of ring ma
Texas company infringed on can be available worldwide. amidst reports that Doordar agreement to follow a new #331007
rings based on gravitational Others felt the rings were vious estimates based on terial to fi nd the precise date
her trademark rights. REUTERS CEOs of Prasar Bharati and shan is in talks with other industry code of conduct. measurements of the planet much younger, but lacked 1980s data from NASA’s of origin.
Japan satellite off to Since 1405, the night watchman keeps vigil over Lausanne
deliver artifi cial meteors
The ‘guardian’ has to climb 153 stone steps to the top of a bell tower in a Swiss cathedral to shout out the time
Payload contains tiny chemical balls Agence France-Presse ing the number of chimes ing clock. The night watch es from fi re, said Renato
Agence France-Presse Lausanne that have rung. man used to play a far more Haeusler, who holds the per
Tokyo Every evening, the night Cupping his hands around vital role. Back when fi re manent watchman position
A rocket carrying a satellite watchman clambers to the his mouth, he allows his constituted a permanent in Lausanne.
on a mission to deliver the top of the Lausanne cathe voice to carry across the threat to medieval cities built But as technology ad
world’s fi rst artifi cial meteor dral bell tower and gets to rooftops, just as his prede in wood, he was an essential vanced, the once ubiquitous
shower blasted into space work: he shouts out the time cessors have done every part of a network of watch position became largely ob
on Friday, Japanese scien each hour, keeping a sixcen evening since 1405. men, most of whom pa solete. Today, Lausanne is
tists said. turyold tradition alive. trolled the streets. The cath one of just seven European
A startup based in Tokyo The night watchman, one Living clock edral watchman was tasked towns or cities to have main
developed the microsatel of the last in Europe, no lon Time tracker: Marco Carrara, a replacement watchman, All year round, from 10:00 with sounding the alarm at tained the tradition of a year
lite for the celestial show ov ger alerts this Swiss city to looking out from the Lausanne Cathedral bell tower. AFP *
p.m. to 2:00 a.m., the night the fi rst whiff of smoke. round watchman, alongside
er Hiroshima early next year fi res, but he does help resi watchman, wearing a big Across Europe, there were Annaberg, Celle and Noer
as the initial experiment for The Epsilon4 rocket lifts off dents to keep track of the bell has tolled 10.” On a cold job on the permanent watch black hat and carrying a lan “thousands, if not tens of dlingen in Germany, Ripon
what it calls a “shooting from the Uchinoura space time. “This is the watchman! night in December, Marco man’s days off , repeats the tern, steps out to the bell thousands” of such guar in Britain, Krakow in Poland
stars on demand” service. centre in Japan. The bell has tolled 10. The Carrara, who takes on the message hourly, only chang tower railing to serve as a liv dians protecting urban spac and Ystad in Sweden.
The satellite is to release
tiny balls that glow brightly
as they hurtle through the <
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was too moved for
I feel like
atmosphere, simulating a now the hard work
meteor shower.
is ahead
It hitched a ride on the
Lena Okajima
smallsize Epsilon4 rocket ALE Co. Ltd president
that was launched from the
Uchinoura space centre by products and plans to build
the Japan Aerospace Explo a stockpile of shooting stars
ration Agency ( JAXA) on Fri in space that can be deli
day morning. The rocket vered across the world.
carried a total of seven ultra When its two satellites
small satellites that will de are in orbit, they can be
monstrate various “innova used separately or in tan
tive” technologies, JAXA dem, and will be pro
spokesman Nobuyoshi Fuji grammed to eject the balls
moto said. at the right location, speed
By early afternoon, JAXA and direction to put on a
confi rmed all seven satel show for viewers on the
lites had successfully been ground.
launched into orbit. “I was
too moved for words,” Lena Multicoloured fl otilla
Okajima, president of the Tinkering with the ingre
company behind the artifi dients in the balls should
cial meteor showers, told mean that it is possible to
the Jiji Press agency. \ change the colours they
“I feel like now the hard glow, off ering the possibility
work is ahead.” of a multicoloured fl otilla of
The company ALE Co. shooting stars.
Ltd plans to deliver its fi rst Each star is expected to
outofthisworld show over shine for several seconds
Hiroshima in the spring of before being completely
2020. The satellite carries burned up — well before
400 tiny balls whose chemi they fall low enough to pose
cal formula is a closely any danger to anything on
guarded secret. That should the earth.
be enough for 2030 events, They would glow brightly
as one shower will involve enough to be seen even over
up to 20 stars, according to the lightpolluted metropo
the company. lis of Tokyo, ALE says.
ALE’s satellite, released If all goes well, and the
500 km above the earth, skies are clear, the 2020
will gradually descend to event could be visible to mil
400 km over the coming lions of people, it says.
year during orbit. The company has not dis
ALE says it is targeting closed the price for an artif
“the whole world” with its icial meteor shower.
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IN BRIEF
After revision, number of voters Top court gives govt 10 days to
up by 7% from 2014 LS elections decide on draft parking rules
Street parking fee to increase exponentially with duration
Ministry told to amend
Aim was to get fresh enrolment, invite objections against any wrong inclusion, says Delhi CEO
policy on charcoal usage
NEW DELHI
Staff Reporter electors have increased in
Staff Reporter
New Delhi
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> The draft
notifi cation was
The draft rules also says
that parking will be allowed
New Delhi
The NGT has warned the the electoral roll during the The Supreme Court on Fri further revised and in demarcated areas on pu
Ministry of Environment, The Delhi Chief Electoral Of Special Summary Revi day asked the Delhi govern proposal for blic streets and open surfac
Forests and Climate Change fi cer (CEO) on Friday pu sion2019,” the statement ment to take a decision on obtaining approval es in residential areas
of punitive action against blished the electoral roll af said. the draft parking rules, against parking charges to
of the competent
offi cials if a policy pertaining ter revision, which stated Total electors in the fi nal which stress on the need to be decided by civic
to the same is not amended authority for the
that Delhi has 1,36,95,291 electoral roll, as on January decongest Capital’s roads, agencies.
by February 28. issuance of
electors that is up 7% from 18, 2019, stood at 1,36,95,291 within 10 days. It further said that in case
notifi cation of
CITY A PAGE 3 the number of electors in the which was 1,19,575 (or A Bench of Justice Arun of residential building,
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2014 Lok Sabha elections 0.87%) less than the total Mishra and Justice Deepak these rules has where stilt parking has been
Sheila divides Delhi when their number stood at electors of 1,38,14,866 in the Gupta gave the direction af been submitted built as per byelaws and yet
Cong responsibilities 1,27,06,366. last fi nal electoral roll pu ter the Delhi government City government in an such residents park their
NEW DELHI affidavit filed in SC
blished on January 10, 2018, submitted that the “Delhi vehicles on public streets,
Delhi Congress chief Sheila
Electors may increase the statement read. Maintenance and Manage the parking charges shall be
Dikshit has divided party
responsibilities among her
“Total electors during last “Names of 9,326 expired ment of Parking Rules” were tee, headed by the Delhi twice the normal charges
three working presidents for general elections2014 were electors have been deleted formulated and its draft was Chief Secretary, will deter fi xed for other residents.
an organisational approach in 1,27,06,366 whereas electors from the electoral roll since notifi ed on January 24 last mine the Base Parking Fee
the runup to the Lok Sabha as per fi nal roll published on the last fi nal publication of year. (BPF). Junk vehicles
elections. Working president January 18, 2019 are the electoral roll held on Ja In an affi davit fi led before The draft rules says that Any junk vehicles of age
Haroon Yusuf will take care 1,36,95,291 which is an in nuary 10, 2018. The gender the top court, the city go surface parking will not be more than 15 years for pe
of party activities in EDMC crease of 9,88,925 [7.78%]. ratio of the electors regis vernment said: “After consi allowed within 500 metres trol and CNG vehicles and 10
and four Legislative The electors are likely to in tered in the fi nal electoral dering the suggestions/ob of a multilevel parking lot years for diesel vehicles
Assemblies, said a senior crease further during contin giving “opportunities for fi cation and removal of the roll has increased to 812 as jection received, the draft for more than an hour. found parked on public
Delhi Congress leader. PTI uous updation before the correction in electors partic dead/permanently shifted compared to the gender ra notifi cation was further re It further said that the streets will be impounded
general election2019,” the ulars and also to invite objec electors and inclusion of left tio of 808 in the fi nal roll last vised and proposal for ob 500metre radius of the and released only on sub
statement said. tions against any wrong in out unenrolled or prospec published...There has been a taining approval of the com multilevel parking facility mission of proof of parking
The objective of the Spe clusion in the Electoral Roll.” tive electors. substantive increase in the petent authority for the will be designated a ‘no and undertaking that the
cial Summary Revision2019, According to the state The CEO said a total num gender ratio of voters of age issuance of notifi cation of parking’ zone for all streets. vehicle would not be plied
the CEO Delhi offi ce said in a ment, the exercise was ber of 1,41,514 electors had group 1819,” the statement these Rules has been sub To discourage street park on roads in Delhi.
statement, was to get fresh based on a house to house been added and the names said. mitted to the Minister of ing, the draft rules says that The apex court’s direc
enrolment (that is enrolling verifi cation during the pe of 61,999 electors had been The gender ratio had in Transport, Government of onstreet parking fee will in tion came while hearing a
those who have attained the riod from June 1, 2018, to deleted from the electoral creased from 632 from last Delhi.” crease exponentially with bunch of pleas relating to air
age of 18+) on the qualifying June 30, 2018, by Booth Le roll. year to 706 in the present As per the draft rules, an duration to discourage long pollution in DelhiNational
date of January 1, 2019, and vel Offi cers (BLOs) for identi “Accordingly, 79,515 net year, the statement added. Apex Monitoring Commit duration onstreet parking. Capital Region.
High Court stays JNU decision on Passport: FIR against
mandatory attendance for faculty Ansal for misleading govt #331007
Probe launched to identify guilty cops
‘University can act against teachers on unauthorised leave’
STAFF REPORTER garb or carrying token used
Staff Reporter New Delhi by public servant with frau
New Delhi The Delhi Police Crime dulent intent), 181 (false
Noting that action against Branch has registered a statement on oath or affi r
unauthorised absence be ta case against Sushil Ansal, a mation to public servant),
ken as per rules governing convict in the 1997 Uphaar 192 (fabricating false evi
the service of the teaching cinema fi re incident, for dence) and 197 (issuing or
staff , the Delhi High Court misleading the government signing false certifi cate) of
on Friday stayed decisions and misrepresenting on the IPC, and Section 12 of
of JNU’s academic and exec oath while applying for the Passport Act (knowingly
utive councils to make atten passport, the police said on allows another person to
dance mandatory for the Friday. use a passport or travel doc
faculty. Also, a probe has been ument issued to him).
In an interim order, Jus JNU told the court that students have complained against launched to fi nd the police On December 24, 2018,
tice Suresh Kait granted re such longterm absence of teaching staff . FILE PHOTO *
offi cers who helped forge Justice Najmi Waziri had or
lief to JNU Professor Ayesha the document and getting dered lodging of an FIR Out of the blue: A man points at IAF planes during RDay rehearsals on Friday. *
AP
Kidwai who had challenged against the teaching staff the court that if marking of the passport renewed, they against police offi cers who
the decisions of the Academ
ic Council (AC) and Execu
tive Council (EC) of the
who go on unauthorised
leave, according to the rules
prevalent before the AC de
attendance was not manda
tory then it would be diffi
cult to ensure presence of
said.
Deputy Commissioner of
Police (Crime) Rajesh Deo
in 2013 given a favourable
verifi cation report to Ansal
despite his nondisclosure
Fog delays over 400 fl ights in Capital
university. cision of July 13, 2018 making the teaching faculty as many said a fi rst information re regarding his conviction in
marking of attendance of them go on vacation for port has been registered in the Uphaar case, which led Flypast rehearsals too aff ected fl ight landings and takeoff s
Next hearing mandatory. months together. the matter under relevant to the issuance of the travel
The court has listed the case Professor Kidwai’s la JNU told the court that sections of the Indian Penal document to him. Staff Reporter could arrive at the airport. Nearly 18 fl ights were can
for further hearing on May 3. wyers argued that the two students have complained Code (IPC) at Crime Branch The High Court had re New Delhi To add to the chaos, a no celled and fi ve diverted.
Earlier this week, it stayed councils did not follow prop against such longterm ab police station. jected the argument made More than 450 fl ights were fl y zone over Delhi between The huge backlog and
a circular issued by the JNU er procedure when taking sence of teaching staff . on behalf of Ansal that a citi aff ected after dense fog en 10.45 a.m. and 12.10 a.m. for consequential delays meant
administration last year their decision which also in Professor Kidwai in her Forged documents zen was not compelled un veloped Delhi’s Indira Gand fl ypast rehearsals for Repu almost all fl ights throughout
mandating that faculty cluded bringing in a biomet plea, apart from seeking “We will investigate how der the Passports Act to give hi International Airport on blic Day meant that even the day and until late even
members mark their own at ric system of marking atten quashing of the decisions of Ansal managed to get the the information sought Friday morning bringing though fog cleared, fl ights ing was impacted.
tendance or submit atten dance. The counsel said that the two councils, has also passport and which police from him while applying for down visibility to zero for at had to wait until afternoon The IGI airport is
dance records of their stu asking for biometrics sought setting aside of va offi cers helped him get the a travel document under least three hours. for takeoff s and landings. equipped with CATIIIB tech
dents failing which any of amounted to breach of pri rious circular issued by JNU passport renewed on forged the tatkal scheme. No takeoff s could take As many as 354 domestic nology which allows assisted
their proposal or leave re vacy of an individual. making marking of atten documents,” said Mr. Deo. A fi re at Uphaar cinema place between 6 a.m. and 9 fl ights and 83 international landing even when visibility
quest will not be considered. Central government dance mandatory for sanc The case was registered during the screening of the a.m. while only those fl ights fl ights were delayed, some is below 50m .
On Friday, the court said standing counsel Monika Ar tion of leave or disbursal of on Tuesday under Sections fi lm Border on June 13, 1997, that are equipped to carry by as much as seven to 12 The minimum for take
the varsity can take action ora, appearing for JNU, told salary. 420 (cheating), 171 (wearing had killed 59 people. out landings in low visibility hours. off s is 125 metres.
Dismissed BSF jawan’s son Cashing in on old idea lands commerce student in prison
‘accidentally’ shoots self, dies Outage while making an ATM transaction made him realise the money had not been debited from his account
person Sube Singh said the established it.
<
> They would open
Ashok Kumar
Cops suspect victim was trying to take selfi e with revolver FARIDABAD
an account and duo would open an account The manager of Bank of
An idea can change your life in a bank and then withdrew Baroda in Faridabad Sector
withdraw cash
Special Correspondent neighbours to check on him. but not always for good. cash from ATM booths using 14, Shant Saurabh, reported
from ATM using
GURUGRAM When knocks on the door did Undergraduate commerce this modus operandi. the matter to the police the
The 20yearold son of dis not elicit any response, the student Mohammad Altaf this modus They mostly withdrew same evening.
missed Border Security Force neighbours peeped through was withdrawing money operandi. They sums of ₹ 10,000 and struck A case was registered at
(BSF) jawan Tej Bahadur Ya the window and spotted Ro from an ATM after the 2016 withdrew sums of ATM booths in remote areas Faridabad Central police sta
dav died in his home in Rewa hit lying in a pool of blood. demonetisation announce ₹ 10,000 and of Faridabad, Palwal and tion on charges of cheating
ri on Thursday after his fath Rewari police spokesper ment when the power went struck ATM booths Nuh. and theft under the Indian
er’s licensed revolver son Deen Dayal said they re off . in remote areas of Starting from 2016, the Penal Code.
accidentally went off , the pol ceived a call regarding the in Though the machine dis Faridabad, Palwal duo allegedly committed Assistant SubInspector
ice said on Friday. cident around 4.30 p.m. pensed the cash, the transac and Nuh around a dozen fraud tran Mahender Singh of Farida
Rohit, a college student, Rohit Yadav. “Rohit’s father has in a com tion was not recorded due to Accused Mohammad Altaf. Sube Singh
sactions causing a loss of bad Crime Branch arrested
was alone at home at the time *
SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT plaint maintained that the re power failure in the nick of * SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT Faridabad Police spokesperson nearly ₹ 1 lakh to diff erent Altaf in Sector 14.
of the incident. The police volver went off accidentally. time. banks, the police said. He purportedly told the
suspect he was trying to take The 42yearold had gone for We are conducting an inquest Altaf realised that he got switch off the machine. Just as Altaf, a BCom fi nal On Tuesday, staff mem police during interrogation
a selfi e with the licensed re a pilgrimage to the Kumbh under Section 174 of the Cri the money but his account However, their luck ran year student at DAV College bers of an ATM cash manage that he started committing
volver when it went off and a Mela and his wife Urmila was minal Procedure Code,” said had not been debited. out earlier this month when in Faridabad, would with ment company who had the crime to make easy mo
bullet pierced his head. at work when Rohit allegedly Mr. Dayal. their act was caught on a draw the cash, his friend gone to replenish a booth ney. The accused even used a
Mr. Yadav had made hea managed to lay his hands on Mr. Yadav had come to stay Modus operandi closedcircuit television would switch off the ma spotted the two young men code “application” for their
dlines two years ago after he the keys to the drawer where at Rewari’s Shanti Vihar three An idea struck the young (CCTV) camera. chine to prevent the transac switching off the machine criminal act.
posted videos of the alleged Mr. Yadav kept the revolver. years ago from his village Rat man, who decided to fraudu Altaf is currently cooling tion from being recorded. while making a transaction. Altaf, who stayed with his
poor quality food being When Rohit did not res ta Kalan. He had procured an lently withdraw cash from his heels in jail, while the It was recorded as bogus The matter was reported to brotherinlaw in Faridabad,
served to jawans. He was la pond to repeated calls from arms licence in hope of get his account with the help of police are conducting raids transaction. the bank concerned, and belongs to Khera village in
ter dismissed from service. his mother, she asked the ting a job as security guard. his friend — whose job was to to nab his accomplice. Faridabad Police spokes footage from CCTV further the neighbouring Nuh.
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IN BRIEF
BJP MLAs will obey Lokayukta
notice, fi le asset details: Gupta
Accuses Aam Aadmi Party of resisting similar disclosure by its legislators
Over 4,000 students
enrolled for coaching Staff Reporter the offi ce of Lokayukta al
NEW DELHI New Delhi leging that details of assets
After the launch of the Jai Delhi BJP legislators will fi le and liabilities were not be
Bhim Mukhyamantri Pratibha
details of their assets and ing fi led by the AAP MLAs
Vikas Yojana last year, the
liabilities as required in a for three consecutive fi nan
Delhi government on Friday
notice issued by the Delhi cial years.
said that 4,092 students had
enrolled for coaching facilities
Lokayukta, Leader of Op “The AAP, which came to
to various courses, of the position in the Delhi As power four years ago on the
proposed target of 5,000 sembly Vijender Gupta said plank of honesty and tran A man rides his bicycle on a smoggy Friday morning in New Delhi. *
PRATEEK KUMAR
students in a year. Minister on Friday, even as he at sparency in public life, is
SC/ST Rajendra Pal Gautam tacked the ruling Aam Aad now surprisingly opposing
chaired a meeting on Friday to
discuss the progress of the
scheme, which provides free
mi Party (AAP) for “resist
ing similar disclosure by its
legislators”.
the notice issued by the Lo
kayukta,” Mr. Gupta said. Diffi cult to live in ‘gas chamber’
Delhi, say apex court judges
precoaching scheme for Though a complaint on At loggerheads
SC/ST students. STAFF REPORTER not fi ling assets and liabili Delhi Assembly Speaker
ties was made “only against Ram Niwas Goel said earlier
Two JMI students get AAP MLAs”, the Lokayukta that there was no law under
scholarships from govt issued notices to all legisla Vijender Gupta during a press conference at the Delhi BJP which it was compulsory ‘Pollution aff ects right to life; norms not being implemented’
NEW DELHI tors, including those be offi ce on Friday. SHIV KUMAR PUSHPAKAR
*
for the MLAs to furnish
Two students of an acting longing to the BJP, which these details. Mr. Gupta, His companion judge on What is required to keep in
Legal Correspondent
course at Jamia Millia Islamia refl ected its “impartiality”, with the notice of Lokayuk cluding Mr. Kejriwal, to give however, said the notice by NEW DELHI the Bench, Justice Deepak check environment pollu
have been awarded
said the BJP leader, adding ta to fi le details of assets their replies on a complaint the Lokayukta was a step in Supreme Court Justice Arun Gupta, chimed in saying tion in Delhi? What more
scholarships by the Delhi
that Chief Minister Arvind and liabilities,” Mr. Gupta alleging that they are not the direction of transparen Mishra on Friday expressed “Delhi is like a gas can be done?” it said, ad
government. Shivani Pandey
Kejriwal should have set an said during a press furnishing details of their cy in public life. personal anguish over the chamber”. ding: “implementation is de
and Firoz Abbasi, students of
PG Diploma in Acting, A.J.K.
example by fi ling the details conference. assets and liabilities before “When Parliamentarians toxic air of Delhi and said Both judges pointed out fi nitely lacking”.
Mass Communication himself. the competent authority. can submit details of their that he would not wish to that air pollution aff ects The court asked the Delhi
Research Centre, were given “The BJP MLAs unani Complaint fi led The issue was raised by assets and liabilities, there settle in the city after right to life. Justice Mishra al Police what action it had ta
scholarships for advanced mously decided in a meet In a notice, the offi ce of the advocate and RTI activist is no reason why Delhi retirement. so cited the problem of con ken to remove unclaimed
training in theatre by Sahitya ing in Vidhan Sabha that all Lokayukta had asked the Vivek Garg, who on January MLAs cannot do so,” Mr. “It is better not to be in gestion and said that he was vehicles — that are no longer
Kala Parishad. STAFF REPORTER four of them will comply ruling AAP legislators, in 9 had fi led a complaint with Gupta said. Delhi. It is diffi cult to live in stuck in traffi c on Friday and required in legal cases —
Delhi… In the morning and could have missed the from police stations. It also
evening, there is so much swearingin of two judges at asked the Delhi government
Properties in south Delhi to be valued, taxed higher
pollution and traffi c conges the apex court. why they have not appoint
tion,” Justice Mishra, who is “What are the things ed district ‘nazir’ (record
from Madhya Pradesh, said which are required to be keeper of recordroom).
in court while hearing a done in actuality? What re The court posted the mat
longpending PIL on air pol mains to be done as per the ter for further hearing on Fe
Recommendations of Municipal Valuation Committee approved in part by south civic body lution in the city. comprehensive action plan? bruary 1.
Staff Reporter
Resolution for that the ‘occupancy factor’
SDMC’s new
of rented residential as well
Wet spell likely ahead Crack down
New Delhi
tion (SDMC) on Friday. poration on Friday pro factor’ of four. New Delhi rainy couple of days with the Met Department said. LieutenantGovernor Anil
The recommendations posed 10% reservation for A new policy was intro the Meteorological Depart The second western dis Baijal on Friday directed
will eff ect property catego economically weaker for Educational institutions duced by the South Delhi ment on Friday predicting turbance of lesser intensity agencies to instruct fi eld of
ries of industrial plots, va ward castes. Educational institutions Municipal Corporation’s rainfall and strong winds is likely to aff ect northwest fi cers to visit hotspot areas
cant land, telecom towers, Committee Chairperson run by the government as Standing Committee on between January 2022. India between January 24 and come down heavily on
entertainment or recrea Shikha Rai said the proposal well as deemed universities #331007
Friday to grant licences to Two western disturbanc and 26. burning of waste, polluting
tional properties such as them attract higher taxes. drew from the recent Bill will have a ‘use factor’ of meat stores and processing es may will aff ect north Due to the infl uence of units and dustgenerating
clubs, educational institu passed by the Central go one, while all other institu plants located in areas un west India, including Delhi, these western disturbanc activities.
tions, guest houses and ₹ 80 crore in tax revenue vernment that provided the tions will attract a ‘use fac der the jurisdiction of the early next week, said the es, night temperatures are
banquet halls. A senior corporation offi same relief. tor’ of three. civic body. Met Department. expected to increase by 4 to Review meeting
The value of a property is cial said that once imple Premises of guesthouses Store owners may ob “The fi rst western distur 6 degrees Celsius over the During a review meeting
based on six factors, includ mented, the recommenda and lodges being used by tain licenses for ₹ 5,000, as bance will be quite intense next four days and due to on air pollution and waste
ing unit area value or the tions are expected to bring ty, irrespective of location, companies as ‘transit resi long as they adhere to pro and may cause severe rainfall, strong winds and management in the Capi
rate per square metre, the in an additional ₹ 80 crore should fall under category dence’ for its employees visions such as square foot weather across northwest cloudy weather, maximum tal, the LG also directed
total covered area, age, oc in tax revenue. ‘D’; recreational properties will attract a ‘use factor’ of age of the shop and other India between Saturday temperatures may fall by 3 agencies to ensure green
cupancy, ‘use factor’ and The subcommittee such as clubs should attract two while licensed guest rules, such as no slaughter and January 22, with peak to 4 degrees Celsius from Ja ing of areas where waste
structure. Annual property formed to look into the re a ‘use factor’ of four com houses and lodges will be ing of meat in the open. intensity on January 21,” nuary 21 onwards. has been lifted to control
tax is charged on a percen commendations suggested pared to earlier three; for treated as unstarred hotels The policy specifi es said the weatherman. The weatherman has fo dust pollution.
tage of this value. the unit area value should vacant land, the ‘multiplier with a ‘use factor’ of three. powers of ‘central meat recast moderate fog on Sa He also directed that
The recommendations of not be change. It also put factor’ will be changed The ‘use factor’ of ban raid teams’ in case cow Strong winds turday with possibility of night patrolling be con
the MVC will alter the value forward other changes, in from 0.3 to 0.5. quet halls will be changed slaughtering is found in the “Forecast for Delhi/NCR is haze and smog. The maxi ducted to check air pollu
of properties and have cluding: industrial proper The panel also suggested from existing four to six. shops, which include labo generally cloudy conditions mum and minimum tem tion and stressed on the
ratory testing of samples, with light to moderate rain peratures are likely to hov need to sensitise industrial
immediate revocation of li fall at most places and iso er around 22 and 4 degrees associations and market as
IN BRIEF
Khyala murders: son succumbs Delhi CEO complains
against fake news, case fi led
Burglars strike
at jewel shop
to injuries after parents’ death ‘Material circulating on social media’
Staff Reporter
New Delhi
A group of thieves alleged
Kin, neighbours protest demanding relief for surviving minor children
STAFF REPORTER
NEW DELHI <
> ... Fake news related
to the schedule of
ly broke into a jewellery
store by making a hole in
Minister conducts raids The Delhi Police has regis general election the shop’s concrete roof in
at FCI godown
NEW DELHI
Staff Reporter
New Delhi <
> The elder daugther
is married and the
tered a case after “fake
news” related to the Lok
2019 has been
found in circulation
north Rohini and de
camped with gold and dia
Minister of Food and Civil A young man who was two other children Sabha poll schedule started on various social mond ornaments, the pol
Supplies Imran Hussain stabbed multiple times by are too small to take circulating on social media, ice said on Friday.
media platforms
conducted a surprise his neighbour in west Delhi offi cers said on Friday. The incident happened
care of themselves. like Facebook,
inspection after he received succumbed to his injures on A case was registered by on the intervening night of
information about “illegal We want the CM or WhatsApp, etc
Friday morning, days after his representative to the Special Cell on the basis Thursday and Friday, they
diversion of ration” to a flour Letter by Office of Delhi CEO
he and his parents were at make sure the kids of a complaint by the Delhi said.
mill from FCI godown at
tacked by their neighbour in Chief Electoral Offi cer circulation on various social Multiple offi cers who vi
Ghevra in Mundka on are taken care of...
Thursday night . During the
Khyala on Wednesday even (CEO), a senior police offi cer media platforms like Face sited the spot pegged the
Elder brother of victim Ram Pal
raid, 15 uintals of foodgrains ing, the police said. said. Requests for removal book, WhatsApp, etc.,” the loss at nearly ₹ 5 crore but
were seized. STAFF REPORTER While Anita* had died on of the content have been letter reads. offi cial confi rmation on ac
Wednesday, her husband fault,” said Ram’s 54yearold sent to Facebook and Twit The Delhi CEO’s Offi ce tual value of the loot is still
7 women among 60 Ram Pal* passed away on brother, who works as a ter, he added. said publication of such fake awaited.
arrested for gambling Thursday. The police re driver. The Election Commission news was causing confusion The theft came to light
New Delhi: As many as 60 ceived information regard Family and neighbours of the Khyala murder victims protest in A neighbour, 62yearold had on Thursday directed among the public, thereby on Friday morning when
people, including seven ing the death of their son New Delhi on Friday. SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT
*
Ramvir Singh, said the prot the Delhi CEO to ask the city creating “public nuisance the owner opened the
women, were arrested in
Amit* around 4 a.m. on Fri est will continue till action is police to investigate the fake and mischief”. store, and found gold, sil
connection with a gambling
day. aged 8 and 11 years. near a mosque in Khyala on taken. “We will not perform news regarding the Lok Sab “Accordingly, I am direct ver and diamond jewellery
racket in south Delhi, police
Accused Mohammad Sa Deputy Commissioner of Friday demanding relief for Amit’s last rites till we are as ha poll schedule being cir ed to request you to investi missing. The thieves even
said on Friday. The arrests
were made after police
leem*, who was arrested on Police (West) Monika Bhard the children. The protest sured of relief for the chil culated on social media gate the matter and take im took away cash from the
raided a premises at Sainik Thursday morning, has also waj said the police will write started around 12 p.m. and dren,” Ramvir said. since one week. mediate necessary actions shop. Anuj Garg, the owner
Farm area in Neb Sarai. PTI been accused by his daught to the Delhi State Legal Ser continued till late evening. Ms. Bhardwaj said her The Offi ce of the CEO had against unnamed persons of Agarwal Jewellers, re
er of molesting her a few vices Authority (DSLSA) re “Priya is married and the team was talking to protes on Thursday issued a letter and entities under relevant ported the incident to the
years ago. garding compensation. two other children are too ters and trying to pacify to the police, asking them to laws,” it said. Action taken police.
Over 400 DDA flats Anita and Ram are sur “We will write to the small to take care of them them. investigate the matter and in this regard “may be in The police are scanning
booked on first day vived by two minor children DSLSA regarding compensa selves. We want the Chief Mi Amit’s postmortem will take “immediate necessary formed to the undersigned the footage from CCTV
NEW DELHI and their elder daughter Pri tion to be given under the nister or his representative be conducted on Saturday, action”. for perusal of the CEO, Del cameras installed nearby
On the first day of launching ya*, who got married last victim compensation to meet us to make sure the the police said. The couple’s “It is brought to your not hi, and onwards submission as the ones in the shop
the housing scheme, the April. The family of the vic scheme,” she said. children are taken care of last rites were performed on ice that fake news related to to the Election Commis were out of order. A case
Delhi Development Authority tims is now worried about The family members and and have a roof over their Thursday. the schedule of general elec sion,” the letter, written by a has been registered and an
on Friday saw over 400 flats the future of the minors, neighbours staged a protest head. None of this is their (*Names changed) tion 2019 has been found in senior offi cial, said. investigation is on.
being booked out of the
approximately 950 flats
which were provided.
STAFF REPORTER
Five persons rob gym instructor, Four members of gang held for Video surfaces
day after
Seminar on solid waste
management held
NEW DELHI
The DJB on Friday organised
give him ₹ 20 to go home involvement in 70 theft cases guard’s death
a public awareness seminar Staff Reporter
on mechanised and eco- Incident happened in early hours of Friday in Dwarka Mor Laptops, mobile phones, catapults and scooty recovered New Delhi
friendly ways of sewage
A day after a 26yearold se
disposal and solid waste STAFF REPORTER
Staff Reporter phone and wallet before curity guard was found
management in the Capital.
“Disposal of waste water into
NEW DELHI <
> ... Instead of
dropping me at pushing me out of the car,” NEW DELHI
hanging in a school near
water bodies and dumping of A 24yearold gym instructor NSIT, they took me the victim said in his The police claimed to have Swaroop Nagar in outer
seepage is polluting was allegedly robbed after complaint. busted a gang of thieves Delhi, a video in which he
near DDU college.
groundwater and surface he took a lift from fi ve per When questioned by the with the arrest of four of its is seen speaking about the
sons, including a woman, in They too my phone police, Kumar told them that members in west Delhi, the reason for taking the step
water,” the DJB said.
STAFF REPORTER Dwarka in the early hours of and wallet before the accused snatched his police said on Friday. surfaced on Friday.
Friday. The woman later pushing me out of bag and the woman gave The accused are allegedly The police also found a
gave the victim ₹ 20 to go the car him ₹ 20 to go back home. involved in nearly 70 cases sixpage handwritten note,
Two arrested home, the police said.
The victim, identifi ed as
Ashish Kumar
Victim
“From his statement, it
appears that the woman is a
of thefts over the past two
months committed using ca
purportedly written by
him, in which he has al
for supplying Kakrola resident Ashish Ku
mar, told the police that he
“There were four men
and a woman in the car. In
member of the gang,” said a
senior offi cer.
#331007
tapults to steal valuables af
ter breaking car windows.
leged that his family mem
bers were being threatened
drugs took a lift to go to NSIT Sec
tor 3 from Dwarka Mor
stead of dropping me at
NSIT, they took me near
The police said they are
trying to locate the vehicle
The four men have been
identifi ed as Bhure (23), The four accused — Bhure, Umesh,Rahul and Shripal — in
and assaulted by relatives
of a teenager, who was sent
around 12. 15 a.m. DDU college. They took my and identify the accused. Umesh (23), Rahul (22), and police custody. SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT
* to a correction home, for
Staff Reporter Shripal (24). allegedly raping his niece
NEW DELHI Catapults, marbles, eight signal. last October.
<
> The accused would
Two persons, including a
foreign national, were ar
rested for allegedly supply
Man fl eeing attackers hit by bike, dies laptops, two mobile phones
and one scooty have been
recovered from their posses
target cars parked
on the roadside or
One of them would then
bring his motorcycle near
the target car and accelerate
In the notes, the guard
has also accused a neigh
bour and her family of as
service lanes near
ing drugs in the Capital and sion. They were active in Ra to mask the noise of the win saulting him and his rela
offi ces and shopping
other states. Police claimed Doctors said the victim died of head injuries, say police jouri Garden, Kirti Nagar, Vi
malls. We received
dow breaking. tives, and even fi ling a false
to have recovered 6 kg kaspuri, Mangolpuri, Anand In the meantime, others case against them. He also
drugs worth ₹ 24 crore. STAFF REPORTER started running towards the murder), 323 (causing hurt), Vihar and other areas of several calls would hit the window using claimed that the local pol
Deputy Commissioner NEW DELHI main road. Eyewitnesses 341 (wrongful restraint) and Delhi. regarding thefts in a catapult. All this while, ice failed to act on his
of Police (Special Cell) San A man was killed after he said he was hit by a motorcy 34 (common intention) of “The accused would tar Punjabi Bagh. A two other members would threat complaints. The pol
jeev Yadav said the accused was allegedly hit by a motor cle, a senior offi cer said. the IPC, added Ms. Yadav. get cars parked on the road police team was be on the lookout for trou ice said an inquiry has
have been identifi ed as cycle while fl eeing a group of He was taken to a nearby The DCP said both parties side or service lanes near of formed and the ble and cover the targeted been ordered and action
Pannalal alias Vinod, a resi men who had attacked him hospital, where he died. The were drunk at the time of fi ces and shopping malls. accused were car. will be taken against the
dent of Dehradun, and following a fi ght between doctors said he died of head incident. We received several calls re arrested “The accused belong to a police offi cers concerned.
Ema (24), who had come to two groups in Anand Vihar, injuries, the police said. garding thefts in Punjabi Monika Bhardwaj
village in Badaun in Uttar Suicide prevention hel-
India from Nigeria on a tou the police said on Friday. A case has been regis Quarrel over auto Bagh. A police team was Deputy Commissioner of Police (West) Pradesh and had come to pline: Sanjivini, Society for
rist visa in 2017. Police said The deceased has been tered and fi ve persons have Investigation has revealed formed and the accused Delhi to earn a livelihood. Mental Health, 011-4076
the accused were arrested identifi ed as Manish, they been arrested in connection that the two groups were not were arrested,” said Deputy police that one of them They started by selling eata 9002, Monday-Saturday
on a tipoff from a district said. with the incident, said Depu on good terms. Both of them Commissioner of Police would roam around cars to bles at traffi c signals. They (10 a.m.-7.30 p.m.)
park in Paschim Vihar, The incident happened ty Commissioner of Police alleged that the quarrel be (West) Monika Bhardwaj. identify vehicles with valua came in contact with Shri
where Vinod was supposed when the victim got into a (Shahdara) Meghna Yadav. gan over an autorickshaw. bles like laptops, mobile pal, who is a resident of Ma
to meet Ema to deliver the fi ght with a few people in the The case was registered un However, the police said that Modus operandi phones or bags. After spot danpur Khadar in Delhi, and
consignment on Thursday. locality. As the situation der Sections 304 (culpable the claim is yet to be veri Disclosing the modus ope ting a target, other members formed a gang,” said Ms. Man stabbed
During interrogation, spun out of control, Manish homicide not amounting to fi ed. randi, the accused told the of the gang would receive a Bhardwaj.
Pannalal told police that he for resisting
has been in the trade for
robbery
the last 15 years. “He used
to get drugs from suppliers
in Mandsaur and further
‘Demarcate Sheikh Sarai Man convicted in ‘Feb 28 deadline to amend STAFF REPORTER
supply the contraband to
Nigerian nationals in Delhi.
to determine green strips’ attempt to murder case policy on charcoal usage’ New Delhi
A man was stabbed in the
He had also supplied drugs stomach for allegedly re
to his contacts in Uttarak Tribunal gives DDA two weeks’ time NGT warns of action against offi cials sisting a robbery in south
hand, UP and Punjab,” Mr. Accused had attacked labourer in 2014 Delhi’s Munirka on Thurs
Yadav said adding that Ema
was doing the same for the
Staff Reporter
NEW DELHI <
> The controversy
cropping up is that Nirnimesh Kumar another argument by the
Staff Reporter
New Delhi
compliance of the offi cer
responsible.”
day night, the police said.
Seiminlun Haokip, is a resi
last two years and is illegal Following a plea seeking re as per SDMC the New Delhi
defence counsel that opi Following a plea seeking The MoEF & CC in an affi dent of Manipur, lives with
ly staying in India. moval of encroachments alleged A Delhi court has convicted nion on the nature of the in ban on the use of charcoal davit submitted to the tribu his wife in Munirka.
from green strips of parks in encroachment a man for attempting to kill juries was not taken. as fuel, the National Green nal in December last year “The victim is currently
Sheikh Sarai, the National cannot be identifi ed a labourer by tying him with Tribunal (NGT) has warned had said that the process of unemployed. His wife
DELHI TODAY Green Tribunal (NGT) has unless there is a a wooden plank and assault Key evidence the Ministry of Environ framing guidelines will take works at a general store
directed the Delhi Develop proper map by ing him with broken whis The prosecution proved the ment, Forests and Climate six months. near Munrika. The inci
January 19 ment Authority (DDA) to de which demarcation key and beer bottles in east case on the basis of eyewit Change of punitive action However, the Bench said, dent happened when Hao
marcate the area within two Delhi’s Shahdara in 2014. nesses’ evidence by the against offi cials if a policy “No justifi cation has been gi kip was walking towards
Music: Solo tabla recital by can be made on the
Hitendra Shrivastava, accompanied
weeks. complainant, his brother pertaining to the same is not ven. We do not appreciate the general store to take his
A Bench headed by NGT ground amended by February 28. the stand in the affi davit that
by Vinay Mishra on harmonium. The incident and another person and the wife back home,” said DCP
Followed by Sitar recital by Gopal judicial member Justice NGT Bench
According to the prosecu medical report of the Observing that despite it will take six months to (SouthWest) Devender
Shah and Ustad Rafi uddin Sabri on
tabla at India Habitat Centre (IHC), 7 Raghuvendra S. Rathore During the hearing, the tion, the accused had at injuries. previous orders the Ministry comply with the order Arya.
p.m. said, “…The controversy SDMC informed the tribunal tacked the victim late in the “The complainant/in had failed to amend the ex which was to be complied Instead of taking the
Exhibition: “Roaring Sea… Still cropping up is that as per that the green area cannot night when he was asleep jured had given a consistent isting policy on the same, a within four weeks from Au main road, he took a short
Mind”, a solo show of sculptures,
paintings, zen calligraphy at IHC, 11 the SDMC [South Delhi Mun be ascertained as there are on the footpath. The inci statement on material as Bench headed by NGT chair gust 2018, having regard to cut through a slum, said
a.m. – 7 p.m. icipal Corporation] the al no proper demarcations in dent took place a few days pects, which is duly corrob person Justice Adarsh Ku the urgency of the matter.” the DCP. “He alleged that
Exhibition: “Welcome 2019” — a leged encroachment cannot the existing maps of the after they quarrelled over al orated by two other eyewit mar Goel said, “Five months “The stand taken by the he was waylaid by two
group show of paintings at Roop be identifi ed unless there is area. “According to the offi leged snatching of money nesses and the evidence of have passed but the needful MoEF &CC cannot held to three men, who asked him
Chand Institute of Fine Art (RCIFA),
Central Market, Ashok Vihar, a proper map by which de cials of SMDC, no exact di from a rickshawpuller by witnesses of investigation has not been done. More be a responsible stand. In to part with his mobile
Phase1, 11 a.m. – 7 p.m. marcation can be made on mension regarding the the victim. It was also admit and medical examination. than one year has passed spite of being repeatedly phone. They stabbed him
January 20 the ground.” green area has been given in ted by the accused in his de The injuries were caused on from the date of earlier or asked, learned counsel for when he resisted and fl ed,”
Talk: Swami Durgeshananda on “In view of the stand ta the plan of DDA. In absence fence statement in the the vital part of the complai der. The authorities thus ap the MoEF & CC is unable to said Mr. Arya. Haokip
“Vivekachudamani” at Ramana
Kendra, Lodhi Road, 5 p.m. ken by the DDA, we direct of dimension, according to court. The injured and his nant. In view of the above pear to be in violation of or give any specifi c date by called the police at 9.15
Music: Anaahat Music Festival — them to send the offi cials the said offi cials, it is not brother had apprehended discussion, the prosecution der of this tribunal.” which the order of the tribu p.m. A team arrived at the
Hindustani vocal recital by Akhil concerning to the site to de possible to demarcate the the accused and produced has proved its case beyond The Bench further ad nal will be complied,” the spot and found a knife near
Kumar Das, followed by a thumri
recital by Samina De and a light marcate on ground, as per encroachments,” the Bench him before the police. Ho shadow of reasonable ded, “As a last opportunity, Bench observed. the crime spot. Haokip was
music performance by students of the map given by them to noted. wever, the victim failed to doubt. Accordingly, accused we grant time for com The directions came fol rushed to a hospital, where
Pt. Shrikant Bakre Sangeet Vidya SDMC. It is relevant to note However, the DDA main identify the weapon of of is held guilty and convicted pliance of order dated Au lowing a plea by the Indian his condition is said to be
Mandir at India Habitat Centre
(IHC), 7 p.m. here that DDA was the one tained that the maps provid fence during the trial which for the off ences punishable gust 2018 till February 28, Institute of Sustainable De serious. The DCP said
Exhibition: Divinity with Eternity — who had developed the area ed by them were “complete the court ignored, saying under Section 307 (attempt 2019 with further direction velopment alleging that ille some suspects have been
solo painting exhibition by Alka and had handed over the in itself with scale by which that it was not fatal to the to murder) IPC,’’ Additional that coercive measures, in gal felling of trees was taking identifi ed and a case has
Sengar at IHC, 11 a.m. – 7 p.m.
(Mail your listings for this column at
same to SDMC in 1993,” the demarcation can be made case. Sessions Judge S.K. Malho cluding prosecution may place due to charcoal being been registered at Vasant
cityeditordelhi@thehindu.co.in) Bench observed. on the ground.” The court also dismissed tra said in his judgment. have to be taken for non used as fuel in industries. Vihar police station.
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4 CITY DELHI
Confusion confounded
FILM REVIEWS
Stained and strained
ween personalities is squirm nefarious intentions don’t
inducing. Inhabiting Kevin is quite match the crimes we
the amusing nineyearold know he’s committed. One of
Hedwig, formidable high the fi lm’s plotlines: to have
priestess Patricia, paedo doctors convince the fi lm’s
The lead actor’s brilliant performance in Glass cannot phile Dennis and the big bad three superhuman beings
redeem M. Night Shyamalan’s fl awed fi lm one they call ‘The Beast’. To suspect their own abilities is
gether they’re ‘The Horde’ a convoluted yet positive
Deborah Cornelious brings the party to a mental and McAvoy plays each role stance by Shyamalan to ac
Superheroes are synony Glass institution inviting heroes spectacularly. That’s about cept our own abilities. But its
mous with costumes and Director: M. Night Shyamalan and villains from the prede as good as Glass gets. frequent reiteration reduces
specialeff ected powers tak Cast: James McAvoy, Bruce cessors. Bruce Willis who essays its impact and is tiresome. To
ing over the big screen in Willis, Anya TaylorJoy, Yet again, the director at David Dunn (a man with sup make matters worse, the di
largerthanlife sequences. Sarah Paulson, Samuel L. tempts to pull the same deli er strength) is relegated to rector’s big twist is recklessly
But weaving a complex and Jackson, Spencer Treat Clark cious complicated web of in Many avatars: James McAvoy does a fantastic job *
SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT stepchild status. Not only treated; a tantalising oppor
nuanced tale far exceeds the Storyline: Kevin, David and trigue and suspense. But does McAvoy overshadow tunity cruelly yanked away
compulsion to make just Elijah, admitted in a mental only those intimately aware stead of the raging blaze as brilliant characters in the of a lifetime. In Glass, McA Willis, but the veteran actor from us. If you watch Glass,
another blockbuster for mas institution, think they’re of the trilogy will spot it, the director wanted. Shya same frame, Shyamalan’s voy continues to transfi x the is evidently neglected. The completely extracting its po
ter storyteller M. Night Shya super humans when doctors though appreciating it might malan’s deft direction, the screenplay is heavily skewed audience with his instanta eponymous Mr. Glass aka Eli sition in the trilogy — though
are trying to prove
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malan. That much was evi be a stretch. As if the unin actors’ performances, music towards one. James McA neous switches. It’s the same jah Price (Samuel L. Jackson) it cannot stand on its own —
otherwise.
dent with Unbreakable itiated don’t matter, Glass and pretty much everything voy’s turn as Kevin Wendell man with the same face, but acts his seasoned heart out — the fi lm will still excite and
(2000) and Split (2016). As charges forward hammer are on track yet sadly it’s the Crumb in Split — a man with McAvoy embodies every per with twitches and eye fl ick thrill only in small doses.
parts of the Eastrail 177 Tril- for each of the characters. In and tongs with nary an ex fl awed and wild narrative 23 diff erent personalities due sonality with marked distinc ers galore — as a heavily se While he does a fantastic job,
ogy, both standalone fi lms the culminating instalment planation. Unfortunately, that derail Glass. to a dissociative identity dis tions and exquisite fi nesse. dated mastermind in a McAvoy can’t quite drag the
crafted immersive universes of the franchise, Shyamalan Glass is a slow simmer in Despite bringing three order — was a performance His agony oscillating bet wheelchair. But in Glass, his fi lm over the fi nish line.
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THE HINDU
SATURDAY, JANUARY 19, 2019
DELHI
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IN BRIEF
The couple behind the crazy ride
As Bombairiya makes it to theatres, Director Pia Sukanya and writer-producer Michael E. Ward tell us how their personal
experiences of living in Mumbai shaped the narrative
Murtaza Ali Khan ingly from what you fi rst out of the traffi c. In India,
thought of. For example, even when you are on the
A tale of vulnerable charac while writing the character road you will fi nd people
ters caught in crazy circum of a fading movie star we with human values and that’s
stances, Bombairiya had its never really thought that less common in the rest of
Capturing Zen world première at the ongo anyone would be interested the world in comparison to
ing Diorama International in essaying it then suddenly India,” explained Michael.
spirit Film Festival at Siri Fort Aud Ravi Kishan showed his inter Getting actors like Radhi
itorium recently. The comic est as he thought that the ka Apte and Adil Hussain on
Eminent artist Satish Gup thriller stars Radhika Apte, pain felt by the character was board was never a challenge
ta returns with a solo exhi Siddhant Kapoor, Akshay very much real and not farci for Pia and Michael and they
bition tilted “Roaring Sea” Oberoi, Adil Hussain, and Ra cal. It may look like a farce to attribute it to the script
at Visual Art Gallery of In vi Kishan. Débutante direc someone watching the story which they perfected after
dia Habitat Centre, begin tor Pia Sukanya and writer but it was real to him and several rewrites. “It was nev
ning this Sunday. producer Michael E. Ward that’s why Ravi Kishan want er really a diffi cult task to get
Much like his previous were present on the occa ed to play the part in the fi rst Radhika, Adil and others on
work, this exhibition, sion. They revealed the story place,” revealed Michael board because the script was
showcasing 13 sculp behind the making of the who would next be serving that good. While Radhika
tures,10 collages, 15 large fi lm while also recollecting as a creative producer on an read the full script, we only
paintings and about 125 the dramatic turn of events upcoming international TV shared specifi c parts with
drawings and calligraphic that brought the two of them series. Adil who plays a politician
works, touches upon the together, both personally Inspired by black come kept in a VVIP cell in the fi lm
artist’s deep engagement and professionally. dies like Seven Psychopaths and so he is really blind to
with mysticism and Zen Pia and Michael have been and In Bruges, Bombairiya is what is happening in the out
spirit. living in Mumbai for over a a reminder that we are not side world. The one thing
The artworks are in decade but they fi rst met in alone trapped in the mad that particularly appealed to
spired by the artist’s travels England where Pia was act ness that seems to surround him was that we were going
to foreign destinations like ing in a TV series that Mi us. “It is a tale of hope. Let’s to shoot using sync sound
Mauritius, Normandy and chael was running. The duo put it that way. Everyone gets which in itself was a big deal
Switzerland. A bold inter moved to India in the after Slice of life: Writerproducer Michael E. Ward with director Pia Sukanya; (below) a scene from the fi lm *
SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT a taste of this madness. We because we were shooting on
pretation of his thoughts, math of the 2005 London are in this foolish confusion real locations in Mumbai.
the works are inspired by bombings. “Interestingly, Mi studied at Delhi’s Sardar Pa paved her way to perform in The story of Bombairiya is have a fi lm in our hands,” re together. My car broke down Many sound designers and
the elements of nature chael, a tea planter’s son, tel Vidyalaya from the age musicals during which she inspired by an actual event collected Pia. around Juhu some years ago sound recordists told us that
such as fi re, water, metal, was born in Assam and I was two to eight before moving to got to share the stage with that happened to Aarti Bag “While it started with that and there I was pushing it on it was going to be impossible
wood and earth. born in England we are mar New York with her parents. the likes of the Oscarwin di, the couple’s fi lmmaker small idea it developed into my own with traffi c coming but we managed to pull it
Speaking about his ried and we work together She subsequently went to ning English actor Eddie friend. “When Aarti came to something much bigger that from four directions and no off ,” rejoiced Pia.
work, Satish Gupta says: and so it’s like a momand Cambridge to study social Redmayne. meet us many years ago, she refl ects strongly on the city body came to help me at all. Content with what they
“Creating these artworks pop shop,” guff awed Pia anthropology. During her Bombairiya draws a lot told me about how her we live in, our adopted Suddenly a young man came have achieved with Bombai-
has been an enriching and while refl ecting on their years in New York, she from the couple’s own expe phone had got stolen on the home, Mumbai. It is a very from nowhere and gathered riya in creative terms, both
almost a spiritual expe creative collaboration. Pia trained as a singer which riences of living in Mumbai. streets. The interesting thing relatable fi lm that’s really some help to push my car Pia and Michael aren’t intimi
rience! While doing my art “It is very much our perso is that the thief didn’t switch funny as well. The central dated by what awaits their
works I am deeply in touch
with my inner self and with
nalities represented on the
screen. Someone, who re
it off which left a room for
negotiation. So there started
character, essayed by Radhi
ka Apte, is someone who is
<
> The central
character, essayed
fi lm at the box offi ce. “Those
are the dangers we had been
the divine. It is tremen cently watched one of our one relationship between the last person interested in by Radhika Apte, is aware of since we started the
dously liberating.” trailers, told us that it is ador two strangers, between the helping someone else. She is someone who is adventure. It’s going to have
Shedding light on his able yet riveting. Apart from girl and the thief. There was very selfobsessed and the last person a global audience quite soon
sculptures, the artist adds: being a very resourceful pro another relationship bet doesn’t like people. So her interested in after the experiment at the
“Earlier my sculptures ducer, Michael is also a won ween her and the guy who journey may also be seen as helping someone boxoffi ce. We believe that
were solid and rooted like derful writer. And he is not was helping her to call the one of redemption,” ex else. She is very there is still a hunger for ci
my Buddha sculpture, I really an outsider looking at thief up through his cell plained Michael. “It is never nema in this country. So it’s a
self-obsessed and
now feel that even though India because he really feels phone. I didn’t stop laughing really fully written until the risk worth taking. Those who
doesn’t like people.
they weigh a substantial like an Indian and even while she kept narrating the script meets the director, are backing the project are
speaks Hindi and writes it as entire chain of events that meets the actor, and meets So her journey brave people. They are keen
amount there is a feeling of
well. Bombariya is really an unfolded on that day. At the the location. Everything is a may also be seen as to know what we would like
lightness like in the cosmic
wave sculpture.” expression of who we are as end of it, I turned to Michael roller coaster. You have to be one of redemption to do next,” summed up Mi
a couple,” explained Pia. and told him that we really prepared to adjust accord Michael E. Ward chael.
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5 EVENTS WORTH-YOUR-WHILE
It's just a game Mixed media Special menu Morning raga Jannat Se Jaun Elia
Mass Production in association with Akshara Nature Morte presents "The Body Politic", the Townhall Gurgaon’s has come up with specially SPICMACAY presents Hindustani classical vocal Upstage Productions presents "Jannat Se Jaun
Theatre presents "It`s Just A Game", an English fourth solo show of works by Pushpamala N. The crafted Sunday brunch for this winter. Some of recital by Ustad Raja Miyan, as part of IHC Elia”, a Urdu Play this Sunday evening. Directed
Play this evening, directed by Vikalp Mudgal. works on display include photographs, videos the dishes on offer are, morning glory donbury, Morning Ragas series, this Sunday morning. by Kokab Farid, it is a dramatic rendition based
Adapted from Vijay Tendulkar’s “Silence: The and sculptures. It highlights the artist’s chosen baked quinoa, Indian opakapaka with udon Ustad Raja Miyan will regale the discerning on Anwar Maqsood’s comic satire of same name.
Court is In Session” the play explores a scenario practice of photo performance, in which noodles, chicken shawarma and tiramisu, fruit lovers of Indian classical music by singing some The play takes you on a tour of Koocha-e-sher-o-
when the noble act of ‘to know’ takes the previously existing images are painstakingly tarts and oreo tarts. This special menu also will of the rarely heard melodies carrying the sukhan, considered to be the part of heaven,
sadistic colour of trespass. recreated for the camera. have signature sushi rolls, dimsums and salads. authentic stamp of the Agra Gharana Gayaki. where all the great poets reside.
Venue: Akshara Theatre, Baba Kharak Singh Marg Venue: Nature Morte, A1, Neeti Bagh Venue: Towhhall, Two Horizon Centre, Gurugram Venue: Amphitheatre, India Habitat Centre Venue : Pearey Lal Bhavan, BSZ Marg
Time: 7:30 p.m. Time: 10 a.m. 6 p.m Time: 12 p.m. 4 p.m. Time: 10:30 a.m. Time: 7:30 p.m.
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6 LIFESTYLE DELHI
THE STREET
Budweiser’s Boxout.FM
Neo Nostalgia Founded by DJ MoCity aka
collection, that Mohammad Abood Uraibi and
electronica musician and
drops today, puts producer Sahej Bakshi of Dualist
STYLE SQUAD
art on streetwear Enquiry, this online community
radio station believes music is a
Amrita Bose true and authentic form of self
expression that helps break down
While the origins of streetwear boundaries. And so, their concept
can be traced back to 70s Los for this collaboration is focussed
Angeles surf culture, Supreme’s on bringing people together. “We
collaboration with luxury label went through a bunch of versions,
Louis Vuitton made sure that it Hanif Kureshi and fi nding that acceptable
was not only here to stay, but also middle ground was the true
coveted. Case in point: reports As part of Handpainted Type, a passion project dedicated to challenge,” says Bakshi.
state that in the fi rst 48 hours of preserving their typographic practices, Kureshi commissions The Tshirt created features the
LV’s Tokyo popup, artistic sign painters across India to paint their favourite alphabets on a message ‘No Clique Just Play’ on
director Virgil Abloh’s debut SS19 cloth banner. “We photograph it, digitise it and segregate it with the front and down both sleeves
collection has already outsold the layers and make a working font out of it, named after the painter with a larger than life Bud bottle
iconic 2017 collection by 30%. who designed it,” he says. His black unisex hoodie features the crown on the back. Another
Out to get some similar street letter ‘B’ in a font by Old Delhi painter Kafeel. It pops thanks to a creation is a fanny pack, perfect
cred is Budweiser, with white base and the use of a printing process that gives a velvetlike for the alternative urban artist,
BudXStreet, its fi rst ever texture, explains Kureshi. Choose from four diff erent patches in according to DJ MoCity. It comes
streetwear drop in India. The English and Hindi and the iconic Budweiser bowtie logo to with four zippered sections and is
American lager label has make it more playful. made of black cordura (a Korean
collaborated with fi ve leading VNV fabric) on the outside, with a
infl uencers and creators for a smooth inner lining that has
collection of unisex apparel and The silhouette for this collab is based on a contrast stitching in signature
accessories. hoodie from VNV’s fi rst ever streetwear drop Boxout.FM purple. Only 125 pieces
The objective: to showcase and uses an all over box print, including on of this bag have been crafted, and
street art culture in India with a the kangaroo pockets and a ‘VegNonVeg’ each piece will be hand numbered
nod to vintage nostalgia, while applique on the back. “Our collaboration by DJ Mo on a hemp tag sewn on
keeping it local, charming and uses deconstruction and dualism as core the front.
relevant. With the theme of Neo principles — taking elements from the
Nostalgia, the fi ve collaborators Budweiser identity like vintage logos,
include multibrand sneaker store slogans and the iconic red carton, and
VegNon Veg (VNV); designer meshing them with VegNonVeg’s most
labels Huemn and NorBlack recognisable aspects — the red and green,
NorWhite (NBNW); co founder and our dot logo,” explains co founder
and artistic director of St+Art Abhineet Singh, adding, “We wanted to have
India Foundation (a notforprofi t fun with it and also merge together two
that works on art projects in distinct worlds. It’s all about that balance of
public spaces) Hanif Kureshi; and contrast and synergy showcasing a collab
Boxout.FM, an online community that’s very here and now.”
radio station.
Kartikeya Sharma, vice
president marketing — South
Asia, of parent company AB
InBev, says, “Streetwear, through
its distinct designs and Huemn
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identities, personalities and Oversized, edgy, street and androgynous is
subcultures, encouraging people NorBlack NorWhite what this designer label is known for. Shyma
to play by their own beat. With Shetty and Pranav Misra even launched a
this launch, we aim to connect Mriga Kapadia and Amrit Kumar of NorBlack NorWhite nonbinary section on their ecommerce
with the growing street culture (known for their love of mixing Indian textiles with platform last year. Their piece is a play on
community of India.” androgynous shapes) believe that culture can create, Budweiser’s classic ‘Wazzup’ ads from the late
The collaborators talk to inspire and provide colour to everyone’s lives, and so 90s. “We felt that ‘Change. That’s what’s up’ is a
Weekend about their inspiration they decided to stay rooted in what they know best — a brilliant catchphrase, and we wanted to re
and picks for the collection. focus on pattern and colour. Their raglan crew neck interpret that. The idea of being the harbinger
The BudXStreet collection full sleeve tee has a speckled print against a vermillion of change is very exciting to us,” explains
launches today at One Style Mile, red background with Bud’s classic typography across the Shetty. Their Tshirt follows a workwear
New Delhi. Starting at ₹ 2,500, at front. They have also designed a tracksuit. Kapadia silhouette with exaggerated dropped down
budfactory.in and superkicks.in explains, “It has tiendye digital print in the black, blue, shoulders for an ontrend oversize look.
and offl ine at the VegNonVeg red and grey, with pops of pink. Yin Yang symbols can be #331007
stores in Delhi and Mumbai. found down the arms and pant legs.”
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Sindhuri Nandhakumar
The bottle locker culture
in India is yet to take hold,
largely due to legal
constraints that alcohol
serving establishments
face. However, many (From far
highend bars across the left)
country have their own Bourbon
methods to ensure that the lockers at
discerning have access to Bayou &
Bottle,
premium spirits. As
bottle
whiskey ambassador
lockers at
Sandeep Arora reveals, The Flatiron
this could be through Room and
keeping premium options (below left)
off the menu, or pricing at the Aman
them high to ensure the Tokyo
stocks last.
Lock, stock
“In India, lots of very
good whiskys were
introduced in the last 15 Tardie, boasts lockers that come
years,” he says. “But some with personalised metal bottle
were so exclusive that they necklaces, with engraved names
are not on the market any and messages.
more. Bars which have At Bayou & Bottle in the Four
and bottle
invested in the consumer’s Seasons, Houston, the most dis
palate have very gently cerning bourbon connoisseurs
carried these bottles store their bottles in personalised
forward. It is possible that lockers. R Bar in Long Beach, Cali
some of them, like the fornia, a space that is somewhere
Ladybird 1973, the Talisker between an upscale lounge and a
18year single malt and the local dive, has VIP lockers (at ap
Glenfi ddich 40year With its whisky stewards and personalised plaques, how proximately ₹ 42,000 a year) that
whisky, are hiding in some also gets patrons 20% off on their
of the country’s premium locker memberships are becoming a matter of pride standard pricing for premium
bars.” liquors.
No whisky connoisseur
wants to sip on a drink Personal touch
today with the uncertainty Mitrajit Bhattacharya with keys for the faculty members. access to great deals on rare spi Across the waters, in Melbourne,
that it might not be Friday afternoons found the dean rits or special off ers (at the Ritz you can indulge in your own bot
available a month from I was in Tokyo recently. While I and the teachers pouring them Carlton Osaka, their Private Bottle tle whenever you visit Impala, a
now. While we wait for didn’t catch the Cherry Blossom — selves a dram, before returning Club membership gets you added cocktail bar in the Prahran area.
bottle lockers to come the sakura was in full bloom only the bottle to its keep in readiness benefi ts like a free pass to enjoy af Owned by Asian street food ba
here, Arora has some in Hokkaido — I did come across a for next week. Was this the genesis ternoon tea and classical live jazz rons, Nicholas Coulter and Simon
recommendations to trend that I am rather intrigued of bottle lockers, I wonder. at their new tea lounge). Personal Blacher, and local entrepreneurs,
bolster your private by. Bottle lockers. Meanwhile, back at Aman, the whisky stewards to serve the Dave and Michael Parker, the bot
collection. On your next At Aman, one of Tokyo’s hip Tokyo haut monde — comprising drink is another advantage. tles are stored in a gleaming gold
trip abroad, look for the pest downtown hotels, I notice bankers, lawyers and the like — Besides Japan, another country whisky cabinet that doubles as a
McCallen 25yearold, the that an entire wall in their cigar are in queue for a locker for their that has embraced the trend re feature wall.
Port Allen 35yearold, the lounge is taken up by stylish glass coveted bottle, as there are just 48 cently is the US. The Flatiron I may have listed a few bottle
Pappy Van Winkle 23year fronted lockers. It might be con (at approximately ₹ 63,000) to Room in New York City was one of lockers from around the world,
old, or the Sullivan’s Cove trarian to say that the simple back house vintage single malts, cog the fi rst to off er them. Owner but don’t get me wrong, the trend
single malt (“the best in lit display is artistic, but it is. A lit nacs and rare bourbons. Tommy Tardie says the idea came is not rampant; rather, it is very
the world). Options tle digging into the origins of the to him when he visited Roppongi, exclusive, with highend lineage
available in India include concept led me to Edward J Ban Whisky and exclusivity a district in Tokyo known for its clubs and bars often off ering them
the Balvenie 30yearold der’s book, The Hidden History of The bottle locker trend has been tony nightclubs, and saw how on invitation. For the wellheeled,
and the Royal Salute 62 Essex Law School. I read that 40 around for a few years. Customers bars often allowed their regular who are used to personalising
Gun Salute. odd lockers in the faculty library are enticed by the idea of exclusiv patrons to store their favourite everything, it enhances their ex
had once been converted into ity, with lockers sometimes sport whisky as a sign of gratitude. Fine perience with their favourite liqu
ones to store something stronger, ing plaques with their names, and and Rare, another bar owned by or in a frequented locale.
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